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Violence publications and resources
Below you will find publications and resources, including documents, fact sheets, newsletters, posters and resolutions related to violence and violence prevention.
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Violence prevention: the evidence (2009)
WHO and Liverpool John Moores University launched Violence prevention: the evidence, an eight-part series of briefings on the evidence for interventions to prevent interpersonal and self-directed violence. By spotlighting evidence for the effectiveness of interventions, Violence prevention: the evidence provides clear directions for how violence prevention funders, policy makers and programme implementers can boost the impact of their violence prevention efforts.
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Preventing violence and reducing its impact: How development agencies can help (2008)
This document makes the case that violence seriously hampers the development of low- and middle-income countries. It calls for increased attention to, and investment in, violence prevention by development agencies and identifies gaps in their current programming. It recommends a strengthened agenda to prevent violence and reduce its impact in low- and middle-income countries.
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Manual for estimating the economic costs of injuries due to interpersonal and self-directed violence (2008)
The manual provides a standardized set of recommendations to estimate the direct and indirect economic costs of interpersonal and self-directed violence. It is intended primarily for economists, public health experts and researchers interested in conducting studies of this nature.
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Third Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Report (2007)
This report, the third of its kind, reviews the progress that has been made in the field of violence prevention since the October 2002 launch of the World report on violence and health and the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention. It sets out what WHO and its partners can do over the next 5 years to expand violence prevention programming and to demonstrate the impact of violence prevention.
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Preventing child maltreatment: a guide to taking action and generating evidence (2006)
This guide provides the necessary tools and information to governments, civil society and international
organizations in their efforts to prevent and respond to violence against children.
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Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention 2005: Changing the face of violence prevention (2005)
This report describes the many activities that have been organized as part of the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, since its launch in 2002. The document reviews global activities coordinated by WHO and its collaborators, provides regional reports on recent developments and promising new programmes, and surveys the work of the Violence Prevention Alliance and its progress in building global commitment to violence prevention.
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Preventing violence: a guide to implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health (2004)
The document provides conceptual, policy and practical suggestions on how to implement each of the six country-level activities, and promotes a multi-sectoral, data-driven and evidence-based approach. Should the resources for achieving certain aspects of the recommendations be lacking, the information contained in the guide will still be useful for planning purposes.
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The economic dimensions of interpersonal violence (2004)
This report on The economic dimensions of interpersonal violence strengthens the case for investing in violence prevention by highlighting the enormous economic costs of the consequences of interpersonal violence, and reviewing the limited but nonetheless striking evidence for the cost-effectiveness of prevention programmes.
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Handbook for the documentation of interpersonal violence prevention programmes (2004)
This document describes how to systematically identify and document violence prevention programmes, including attributes such as their target populations, interventions, evaluation methods and evidence of effectiveness.
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Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention (2004)
Based on the 2002 World report on violence and health, which focuses on the scale of violence and provides a detailed overview of its causes and methods for prevention, Milestones of a global campaign for violence prevention describes the one year follow-up to the release of the World report on violence and health, using the nine recommendations as a reporting framework.
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Guidelines for medico-legal care for victims of sexual violence (2003)
The guidelines aim to improve professional health services for all individuals who have been victims of sexual violence by providing health care workers with the knowledge and skills that are necessary for the management of victims; standards for the provision of both health care and forensic services to victims; and guidance on the establishment of health care and forensic services for victims.
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Intervening with perpetrators of intimate partner violence: a global perspective (2003)
This descriptive study presents information on the characteristics, operational philosophies, funding mechanisms, intervention goals and content, availability of evaluation results, and other features of interest for batterer intervention programmes in 37 countries outside Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Guide to United Nations resources and activities for the prevention of interpersonal violence (2002)
The guide, which reflects the work of 15 United Nations agencies on preventing and addressing the consequences of interpersonal violence, describes related programs, publications and databases and provides contact information for focal points for interpersonal violence prevention within each agency.
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Small arms and global health (revised August 2001)
This research report, a survey of the large body of scientific work which has been carried out over the past few decades on small arms and health, seeks to broaden the definition of the problem of small arms by demonstrating its public health importance and introducing the public health community's longstanding emphasis on scientific methodologies and prevention.
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Flyers
Preventing violence and reducing its impact:
How development agencies and governments can help [pdf 3.65Mb]
Fact sheets
Violence and alcohol
Facts sheets on interpersonal violence and alcohol: general policy briefing plus specific fact sheets on alcohol and child maltreatment; youth violence; intimate partner violence and elder abuse.
Fact sheets
Interpersonal violence and illicit drugs
Interpersonal violence and illicit drug use are major public health
challenges that are strongly linked. Involvement in drug use can increase the risks
of being both a victim and/or perpetrator of violence, while experiencing violence
can increase the risks of initiating illicit drug use.
Full text [pdf 360kb]
Violence and health
Facts sheets from the World report on violence and health (2002): child abuse, collective violence, elder abuse, intimate partner violence, self-directed violence, sexual violence and youth violence.
Fact sheets
Violence and disasters
Violence is an important issue facing communities affected by natural disasters, though the full extent of the problem has not been thoroughly studied. This is a WHO fact sheet based on currently available data on violence and disasters.
Full text [pdf 614kb]
Newsletters
Newsletters of the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention
Newsletters
Posters
"Album" poster series (2005)
This black and white "Album" series depicts how lives can be scarred forever due to violence. What for some could be snapshots of cherished memories are, for survivors of violence, a remembrance of wounds with lifelong consequences.
Posters
"Explaining away violence" poster series (2003)
The "Explanations" poster series features victims of violence and the accounts they give to explain away their injuries, touching upon the shame and taboo which surround violence in many cultures.
Posters
"Violence in red" poster series (2003)
The "Red" poster series portrays bold close ups of parts of the human body tainted in red, symbolizing the impact of violence on the body and on health in general.
Posters
Related resolutions
Implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health, WHA56.24 (2003)
Resolution of the World Health Assembly, 56th session, 28 May 2003
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Chinese [pdf 191kb]
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English [pdf 137kb]
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French version [pdf 120kb]
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Russian [pdf 193kb]
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Spanish version [pdf 127kb]
Implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health, EB111.R7 (2003)
Resolution of the Executive Board of the WHO, 111th Session, 23 January 2003
Arabic [pdf 139kb]
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Chinese [pdf 352kb]
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English [pdf 301kb]
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Russian [pdf 364kb]
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Spanish [pdf 304kb]
Violence and health, EB109/15 (2001)
Resolution of the Executive Board of the WHO, 109th session, 14 November 2001
Arabic [pdf 118kb]
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Chinese [pdf 230kb]
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English [pdf 35kb]
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Russian [pdf 199kb]
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Spanish [pdf 38kb]
Concerted public health action on anti-personnel mines, WHA51.8 (1998)
Resolution of the World Health Assembly, 51st session, 16 May 1998
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English [pdf 28kb]
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Russian [pdf 22kb]
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Spanish [pdf 64kb]
Concerted public health action on anti-personnel mines, EB101.R23 (1998)
Resolution of the Executive Board of the WHO, 101st Session, 27 January 1998
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French [pdf 28kb]
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Spanish [pdf 49kb]
Prevention of violence, WHA50.19 (1997)
Resolution of the World Health Assembly, 50th WHA, 14 May 1997
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French [pdf 53kb]
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Spanish [pdf 51kb]
Prevention of violence: a public health priority, WHA49.25 (1996)
Resolution of the World Health Assembly, 49th session, 25 May 1996
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