Public Health Policy for Preventing Violence

Mercy, James A.; Rosenberg, Mark L.; Powell, Kenneth E.; Broome, Claire V.; Roper, William L.

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.12.4.7

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“…First, youths who engage in serious antisocial behavior also engage in behaviors that place them at high-risk for criminal victimization (e.g. carrying weapons) (Mercy et al, 1993). Consequently, criminal victimization may be reduced by changing high-risk behavior patterns such as carrying weapons, staying out all night, and associating with gang members.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, mortality rates from contagious and infectious diseases, motor vehicle injuries, and chronic diseases associated with lifestyles (e.g. smoking and heart disease) have decreased due to public health's investment in and commitment to prevention (Mercy et al, 1993). Proponents envisage that a similar investment and commitment to violence prevention by the public health community will result in dramatic and substantial reductions in rates of premature death, disability, and intentional injury caused by violence.…”

Section: Public Health and Violence Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multisystemic therapy: an effective violence prevention approach for serious juvenile offenders

Henggeler

Cunningham

Pickrel

et al. 1996

Journal of Adolescence

136

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This article provides an overview of a treatment approach, Multisystemic Therapy (MST), that has demonstrated long-term reductions in criminal activity and violence among youth at high-risk for perpetrating violence. Importantly, central aspects of MST are consistent with the recent public health agenda of violence prevention in the United States. Moreover, as demonstrated from the findings of controlled clinical trials evaluating MST with serious juvenile offenders, the viability of the public health approach is supported.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Section: Public Health and Violence Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multisystemic therapy: an effective violence prevention approach for serious juvenile offenders

Henggeler

Cunningham

Pickrel

et al. 1996

Journal of Adolescence

136

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“…11,75,76 However, increasingly punitive sentences garner political popularity, despite lacking evidential support. Moreover, the popular press often describe perpetrators using emotive, even religious, discourse.…”

Section: Violence Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…9 Despite some fantastic work by early pioneers [10][11][12] violence has only relatively recently been acknowledged as a major concern for Public Health at the 49 th World Health Assembly in 1996, which was re-emphasised at the 67 th World Health Assembly in 2014. What is more, it was only in 2002 that the public health approach to violence was formalised by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the World Report on Violence and Health 14 which offered what is considered one of the broadest definitions of violence 15 emphasising the intentionality of the act and a broad range of outcomes:…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is violence a disease? Situating violence prevention in public health policy and practice

Williams

Donnelly

2014

Public Health

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The paper provides a review of some of the thoughts, ideas, and opinions that pervade the public health literature concerning how to classify or conceptualise violence. It is argued that violence transcends classic distinctions between communicable and noncommunicable diseases, distinguishes itself from the discipline of injury control, and is influenced by wider, social determinants. Through a discussion of these varied perspectives it is concluded that a fourth revolution in public health is needed -a "change in scope" revolution -that recognizes the influence of social justice, economics, and globalization in the aetiology of premature death and ill health, into which violence fits. However, rather than be shackled by debates of definition or classification, it is important that public health acknowledges the role it can play in preventing violence through policy and practice, and takes unified action.

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“…In order to ensure consideration of a broad range of topics and perspectives, the Injury Center invited external experts and partners to participate in its development (NCIPC, 2002 The Injury Center's research agenda is organized along two guiding principles. First, the Public Health Model is used to describe and acknowledge the importance of the different phases of research from identification of the problem through to the assurance of widespread adoption of effective interventions and is described more fully below (Mercy, Rosenberg, Powell, Broome, & Roper 1993). The second guiding framework, the Socio-ecological model (Garbarino & Crouter, 1978) considers the importance of targeting different levels along a societal continuum.…”

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confidence: 99%

Twenty years of scientific progress in injury and violence research and the next public health frontier

Greenspan

Noonan

2012

Journal of Safety Research

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The establishment of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC or Injury Center) in 1992 as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) firmly established the Injury Center as the lead federal agency for non-occupational injury prevention and control . Since then, it has provided leadership and a strong scientific base for intramural and extramural-investigator funded injury research. The Injury Center's scientific mission encompasses efforts from primary prevention to treatment and rehabilitation. Early CDC efforts were primarily focused on describing the extent of the problem, identifying risk and protective factors that affect the extent of violence and injury in our society, and gaining visibility for violence and injury as a major public health problem. Efforts such as the development of injury-based surveillance systems provided population-based surveillance data regarding the extent and distribution of fatal and non-fatal injuries, helped to identify demographic characteristics for those who were most at risk, and identified risk and protective factors that influence that risk. Celebrating the Injury Center's 20th anniversary presents an opportunity not only to reflect on past accomplishments but also to look ahead at what still needs to be done.

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Public Health Policy for Preventing Violence

Cited by 410 publications

References 31 publications

Multisystemic therapy: an effective violence prevention approach for serious juvenile offenders

Multisystemic therapy: an effective violence prevention approach for serious juvenile offenders

Is violence a disease? Situating violence prevention in public health policy and practice

Twenty years of scientific progress in injury and violence research and the next public health frontier

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