Global status report on violence prevention 2014

Global status report on violence prevention 2014

INTRODUCTION Interpersonal violence affects millions of people worldwide, often has lifelong consequences, and is gaining recognition as an important global public health problem. There has been no assessment of measures countries are taking to address it. This report aims to assess such measures and provide a baseline against which to track future progress. METHODS In each country, with help...

The Global Status Report on Violence Prevention 2014: Where to for the South African health sector?

[1] on 10 December 2014. The report reviews how governments around the world, including in South Africa (SA), are attempting to curb interpersonal violence. There is some good news in the report. In common with many other countries, SA's homicide rate has declined over the past decade: Across the five types of interpersonal violence assessed in the report – child maltreatment, youth violence, i...

Global statistics on addictive behaviours: 2014 status report.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Addictive behaviours are among the greatest scourges on humankind. It is important to estimate the extent of the problem globally and in different geographical regions. Such estimates are available, but there is a need to collate and evaluate these to arrive at the best available synthetic figures. Addiction has commissioned this paper as the first of a series attempting to ...

Building global commitment for violence prevention Violence Prevention Alliance

Status report on the Low Energy Neutron Source — 2014

LENS produced its first neutrons almost 10 years ago and has now entered a steady state of operations with particular focus on the educational and instrumentation innovation aspects of its mission. Key elements in the facility’s success over the last decade have been the alignment of its mission with the objectives of a number of major neutron sources and its ability to educate and train studen...