Global injury and violence

JIVR: a new frontier for global injury and violence prevention

elcome to the JIVR! On behalf of Editorial Team/Board, we are delighted to inform you that after three years of preparation and hard work the journal entitled "Journal of Injury and Violence Research" (JIVR) is established. The driving force behind the inception and evolution of JIVR has been to provide an interdisciplinary forum for publishing definitive peer reviewed articles devoted to the c...

environmental security and global violence

for many years, the prevailing notion of security has been associated with the ‘realist’ militaryside of conflict management, understood as ‘national security’. for us the term does not just mean theinterplay of deterring, compelling, defensive and offensive force in the pursuit of a self-defined nationalinterest. above all, and at a fundamental level it includes the safety and quality of life ...

Dating Violence and Injury Among Youth Exposed to Violence.

OBJECTIVES To assess gender differences in the proportion of adolescents reporting teen dating violence (TDV) and the frequency of TDV at multiple age points across adolescence in a high-risk sample of youth with previous exposure to violence. METHODS A cross-sectional, high-risk sample of boys and girls (n = 1149) ages 11 to 17 years completed surveys assessing TDV and self-defense. Indices ...

MENTOR-VIP--a global mentoring program for violence and injury prevention.

Facing Violence - A Global Challenge.

Violence has been shown to be a global challenge resulting in long-lasting social, medical, and mental health sequelae. In this article, we focus on massive social violence, such as war and civil war. Social suffering and mental health problems related to violence as a global public health problem can be tackled only with a holistic approach that addresses the specific region, culture and group...