Lockdowns for Public Health Can Also Reduce Violence

[Violence is also a public health issue].

In 1996, the World Health Organization declared violence a major and growing public health problem across the world. In Spain, despite the growing incidence of reports of deaths and abuse due to intimate partners violence; the emergent data on school-based violence among children and adolescents; the persisting political violence and the tragic experience of the 11-M attacks in Madrid; a clear ...

[Violence and public health].

Public health policy for preventing violence.

The current epidemic of violence in America threatens not only our physical health but also the integrity of basic social institutions such as the family, the communities in which we live, and our health care system. Public health brings a new vision of how Americans can work together to prevent violence. This new vision places emphasis on preventing violence before it occurs, making science in...

Adolescence, Violence, and Public Health

1 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Adolescent Medicine, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, ...

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...