violence as a threatening factor to public health

Treating violence as a public health problem.

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Violence seen as public health issue.

A public health approach to gun violence.

[Violence and public health].

Injury and violence: a public health perspective.

This report examined injury and violence from a public health perspective. The discussion focuses on the magnitude of the problem, age and regional patterns, war mortality, motor vehicle accidents, natural disasters, US injury and violence mortality and morbidity trends by age, the history of injury, the relationship between energy and injury, similarities between disease and injuries, injury ...

Violence: news on a public health problem.