Domestic violence surveillance system: a model

Domestic violence surveillance system: a model.

OBJECTIVE To develop a domestic violence surveillance system. MATERIAL AND METHODS The strategies included implementation of a standard digitalized reporting and analysis system along with advocacy with community decision makers, strengthening inter-institutional attention networks, consultation for constructing internal flow charts, sensitizing and training network teams in charge of providi...

Toward a Biopsychosocial Model of Domestic Violence

The US National Violent Death Reporting System: domestic and international lessons for violence injury surveillance.

OBJECTIVES This article reviews and comments on the development, strengths and limitations of the US National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) from a variety of domestic and international perspectives. METHODS The authors were provided preliminary copies of the manuscripts in this special edition and examined them to understand and put in context the elements and uses of the NVDRS so fa...

An Intergenerational Model of Domestic Violence

Comments Welcome * I am grateful to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for financial support, to Marla Lieberman for interesting and useful conversations, to Helen Tauchen for insightful comments, and especially to Shelly Lundberg for suggestions that have shaped and reshaped this paper. Of course I retain responsibility for the v...

Iranian Adolescents' Experiences of Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Study

Background and Objectives: Children, especially adolescents, are one of the main victims of domestic violence, who have received less attention despite their vulnerability to this social problem. This study was conducted to determine the adolescents' perspectives and experiences of domestic violence and parental disputes in order to improve our understanding of the various aspects of this socia...