Adolescent violence prevention: a case presentation.

Patterns of injury in children and adolescents presenting to a South African township health centre.

OBJECTIVES To describe the patterns and causes of childhood injury presenting to a South African township health centre in 1991. DESIGN Retrospective review of clinic held case notes. SETTING Typical South-African urban township within Greater Johannesburg. SUBJECTS 695 subjects aged 0-19 years presenting as a direct result of injury. RESULTS Overall rates of presentation for injury wer...

Adolescent violence prevention practices among California pediatricians.

OBJECTIVES To examine pediatricians' provision of violence prevention services to their adolescent patients and to identify factors associated with pediatricians' implementation of these services. DESIGN A cross-sectional sample of California pediatricians completed a self-report questionnaire. The "Precede/Proceed" theoretical model guided the questionnaire in identification of factors assoc...

MENTOR-VIP--a global mentoring program for violence and injury prevention.

Caregiver parenting and gender attitudes: Associations with violence against adolescent girls in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Violence against adolescent girls occurs at alarmingly high rates in conflict-affected settings, in part due to their increased vulnerability from their age and gender. However, humanitarian programming efforts have historically focused either on child abuse prevention or intimate partner violence prevention and have not fully addressed the specific needs of adolescent girls, including engageme...

New manual for estimating the economic costs of injuries due to interpersonal and self-directed violence.