Handbook of injury and violence prevention

Handbook for the Documentation of Interpersonal Violence Prevention Programmes

This study evaluated the effect of Students for Peace, a multi-component violence-prevention intervention, on reducing aggressive behaviours among students of eight middle schools randomly assigned into intervention or control conditions. The intervention, based on Social Cognitive Theory, included the formation of a School Health Promotion Council, training of peer mediators and peer helpers, ...

Core competencies for injury and violence prevention.

Efforts to reduce the burden of injury and violence require a workforce that is knowledgeable and skilled in prevention. However, there has been no systematic process to ensure that professionals possess the necessary competencies. To address this deficiency, we developed a set of core competencies for public health practitioners in injury and violence prevention programs. The core competencies...

FEATURED PROGRAMME Injury prevention in the information age: the Injury and Violence Prevention Library

Injury control is multidisciplinary, involving disparate fields whose body of knowledge is rarely found in a single repository. As shown in fig 1, there are at least 11 disciplines whose areas of inquiry have direct bearing upon some aspect of injury and violence prevention. Practitioners within these disciplines circulate information through formal channels (academic and non-academic). Informa...

Injury prevention in the information age: the injury and violence prevention library.

Injury control is multidisciplinary, involving disparate fields whose body of knowledge is rarely found in a single repository. As shown in fig 1, there are at least 11 disciplines whose areas of inquiry have direct bearing upon some aspect of injury and violence prevention. Practitioners within these disciplines circulate information through formal channels (academic and non-academic). Informa...

Prevention partners. Community, physicians team up against injury and violence.