Community violence, including assault and homicide, is a public health problem. We provide a profile of assault-related injury and homicide death in Rhode Island to better understand assault/homicide. The 2014 emergency department (ED) visit data, hospital discharge (HD) data, and 2004-2014 Rhode Island Violent Death Reporting System (RIVDRS) data were used for this study. Most assault injuries...

Social protection is the ability of a government to insulate its citizens from the problems associated with poverty and market forces that negatively affect their quality of life. Prior research shows that government policies that provide social protection moderate the influence of inequality on national homicide rates. Recent research, however, reveals a strong association between poverty and ...

INTRODUCTION There is much criticism on the quality of criminal data available in Brazil, but there lacks systematic studies to corroborate it. Thus, it was conducted a comparison between homicides registered in Minas Gerais by two public information systems. METHODS The number of homicide deaths of the Mortality Information System of the Ministry of Health (SIM/MS) and Minas Gerais Military ...

Rates of homicide involving intimate partners have declined substantially over the past 25 years in the United States, while public awareness of and policy responses to domestic violence have grown. To what extent has the social response to domestic violence contributed to the decline in intimate-partner homicide? We evaluate the relationship between intimate-partner homicide and domestic viole...

Homicide is defined as the "willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.” In 1971 homicide was the leading cause of death for black women from 15 to 34 years of age and the third highest cause of death for white women from 15 to 29 years of age. In 1973 statistics listed homicide as the second leading cause of death for all women from 15 to 24 years of age. Homicide must there...

conclusions it seems that prevention of collective quarrel and control on anger could be helpful to decrease the murder rate in society. results in the end, five main contents were found: collective quarrel, honor killing, emotional dissatisfaction, lack of control on anger, and burglary. patients and methods it is a qualitative research making use of content analysis, conducting on 17 male imp...

OBJECTIVE Although rare in absolute terms, risk of homicide is markedly elevated among children of parents with mental disorders. Our aims were to examine risk of child homicide if 1 or both parents had a psychiatric history, to compare effects by parental sex and diagnostic group, and to assess likelihood of child homicide being perpetrated by parents according to their psychiatric history. ...

September 11 on suicide and homicide in September 11 on suicide and homicide in England and Wales. He argues that when England and Wales. He argues that when tackling violence in our society, the current tackling violence in our society, the current Government may plan services on the basis Government may plan services on the basis of information that is misleading and flawed. of information th...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether investments made in public health research align with the health burdens experienced by white and black Americans. METHODS In this cross-sectional study of all deaths in the United States in 2015, we compared the distribution of potential years of life lost (PYLL) across 39 causes of death by race and identified key differences. We examined the relationship betwee...