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Violence and global public health

Violence and global public health

Morgan, Julia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-7593 and Choak, Clare (2022) Violence and global public health. In: La Placa, Vincent and Morgan, Julia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-7593, (eds.) Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health. Routledge - Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 109-118. ISBN 978-0367652098; 978-1003128373 (doi:10.4324/9781003128373)

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Abstract

Violence is a major global public health problem (WHO, 2002) with some likening it to an epidemic being both contagious, as well as causing morbidity and mortality (Slutkin, 2013). Moreover, a public health approach to violence is highlighted as being important in relation to interventions. This chapter will explore violence and its impact upon global public health before continuing to explore how an awareness of critical social theories such as structural and cultural violence contributes to a more in-depth understanding of violence. The impact of structural and cultural violence in relation to male violence towards women and girls, including femicide, will be focused upon, as well as a discussion of youth violence.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: violence; public health
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences
Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development
Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development > Centre for Inequalities
Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM)
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Last Modified: 04 Dec 2023 16:33
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/36138

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