Injury and violence
Resources on the evolving state of knowledge on different types of injuries as an important public health issue and current efforts to reduce such injuries. Topics covered include road traffic injuries, burns, drowning, poisoning, falls, homicides, suicides, assaults and intimate partner violence.
Latest Documents
- A Systematic Review of African Studies on Intimate Partner Violence against Pregnant Women: Prevalence and Risk Factors
- S. Shamu / PLoS ONE, 2012
- Although Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is very high in Africa, information obtained from the increasing number of African studies on IPV among pregnant women has not been scientifically analysed. This paper presents a systematic rev...
- Case studies: Bangladesh women's groups
- Action on Disability and Development, 2012
- In Bangladesh women do not have the same level of protection from human rights violations as men, for disabled women the situation is even worse and they continue to experience severe deprivation and sexual abuse. Although women are b...
- Sterilisation of women and girls with disabilities
- Women With Disabilities Australia, 2012
- Women With Disabilities Australia: Policy Paper: 'Assessing the situation of women with disabilities in Australia: A human rights approach' (July 2011) - This Paper uses a human rights framework to document the range of data, research...
- Talking about domestic Violence
- 2011
- This handbook (Talking about Domestic Violence) has been developed as part of the Access to Justice Project in Cambodia, implemented jointly with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Interior with the support of UNDP, for Villa...
- Genital mutilation causes high rates of psychiatric disturbances for girls in Iraq
- J.I. Kizilhan / European Journal of Psychiatry, 2011
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) in Iraq has been brought to public attention by several human rights organisations since 2003. This study investigates the mental health status of young girls after genital mutilation in Northern Iraq. ...
- Female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso
- B. Karmaker; N. Kandala; D. Chung / BioMed Central, 2011
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) is widely practiced in some parts of Africa, although it can cause immediate complications (pain, bleeding and infection) and delayed complications (sexual, obstetric, psychological problems). This arti...
- Health consequences of female genital mutilation/cutting in The Gambia
- A. Kaplan; S. Hechavarría; M. Martín / Reproductive Health, 2011
- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is a harmful traditional practice with severe health complications, deeply rooted in many Sub-Saharan African countries. The objective of this study is to perform a first evaluation of the mag...
- International efforts to abandon female genital mutilation and cutting in Africa
- N.J. Diop; M. Malmström; F. Moneti / United Nations Population Fund, 2011
- The objective of the ‘UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C) Accelerating Change’ is to contribute to the abandonment of FGM/C in 17 African countries. This annual report is sought to...
- The Peruvian road traffic injury surveillance system
- Rojas Medina Y; Espitia-Hardeman V; Dellinger AM / Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2011
- This paper describes a national hospital-based non fatal road traffic injury surveillance system that was established at sentinel units across Peru in 2007 under the leadership of the Ministry of Health. Key aspects of the...
- Acknowledging road injury as an emerging issue of sustainable development
- Commission for Global Road Safety, 2011
- This report, published by the Commission for Global Road Safety, calls for the automobile industry to play a leading role in promoting the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety with an ‘opt out’ consumers&rs...
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