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
- What are different epidemiological determinants of road traffic accidents in western Nepal?
- Mishra B; Sinha ND; Sukhla SK / Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2010
- This paper, published by the Indian Journal of Community Medicine, posits that road traffic accident (RTA) is one of the top five causes of morbidity and mortality in South-East Asian countries. The authors argue that its socioeconomi...
- The UN decade of action for road safety
- World Health Organization, 2011
- This briefing note posits that for many years, road traffic crashes have been acknowledged by the United Nations and its member states to be a considerable challenge to the achievement of health and development goals. However, it has ...
- Combatting sexual and gender-based violence in DRC through an innovate media campaign
- Dirk-Jan Koch; Tony Kasuza N’kolo / Search for Common Ground, 2011
- This report presents progress of a Search for Common Ground (SFCG) project aimed at sensitising the population of western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the need to change behaviour towards women, and to shape male attitudes so...
- A guide to ensuring occupational safety and health in the health services sector
- US Agency for International Development, 2008
- These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors a...
- Linking women’s mental and reproductive health
- S. Allanson; J. Astbury; M. Bandyopadhyay / World Health Organization, 2009
- This literature review examines the link between mental health and women’s reproductive health. It explores the key issues affecting women throughout the life cycle and provides an evidence base that highlights the effects of th...
- Physical and sexual violence is associated with multiple adverse health behaviours
- D. W. Brown; L. Riley; A. Butchart / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009
- This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a sample of children in five Africa...
- Preventing gender based violence in Kenya
- J. Crichton; C. N. Musembi; A. Ngugi / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- Intimate-partner violence involves multiple violations of sexual and reproductive rights, with devastating impacts on the health and wellbeing of those affected. This paper from the Institute of Development Studies details the results...
- An examination of the most common child injuries and how to prevent them
- M. Peden (ed); K. Oyegbite (ed); J. Ozanne-Smith (ed) / UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, 2009
- This report on child injury prevention brings together all that is currently known about the various types of child injuries and how to prevent them. At the same time, it recognises that there are major gaps in knowledge. The overall ...
- WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Researching, Documenting and Monitoring Sexual Violence in Emergencies
- World Health Organization, 2008
- Sexual violence in emergencies is a complex, sensitive, and dangerous problem. Increasingly, humanitarian and human rights actors, researchers, donors, governments, civil society, and others are supporting or engaging in activities to...
- Implementation of the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention will help improve the preventative safety and health culture in countries worldwide
- S. Al-Tuwaijri; I. Fedotov; I. Feitshans / International Labour Organization, 2008
- This report, by the International Labour Organization (ILO), is an introductory report from the 18th World Congress on Safety and Health at Work which took place in Korea, 2008. It provides an overview of the most recent ILO estimates...
