Gun violence is related to substantial morbidity and mortality with surrounding discussions framed and shaped by the media. This study's objective was to explore national news media's reporting of gun violence around a mass shooting. National news pieces were coded according to categories of gun violence, media frames, entities held responsible, responses, and reporting of the public heath appr...

Youth violence is a major public health problem in every region of the world, yet it is especially prevalent in specific settings. Youth homicide rates exceeding 10.0/100,000 occur most often in countries that are low or middle income, or which are experiencing rapid economic or social change. Particularly in low- and middle-income countries, the capacity to develop and implement the comprehens...

This paper analyses the delivery of violence reduction and preparations for Serious Violence Duty in one region United Kingdom. Using Bath & O’ Moore’s 5c’s approach as an analytical framework, we explore response to Government Strategy (Home Office, April 2018.), Public Health approaches how prepared appears be implementation Duty. The evidence suggests development Reduction Units has led a tw...

At the World Health Assembly in 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared violence "a leading worldwide public health problem" and called for public health strategies to address it. The WHO's call to action, as well as an international political movement that is gaining strength, has helped galvanize health professionals in many countries to employ the tools of public health and their ...

In 1991, in theUnited States, SurgeonGeneral Koopdeclared violence a public health epidemic, ushering in a surge of funding for primary and secondary prevention, aswell as research to study themany faces of this social problem. For women, violence may take many forms, violence against women being the most common. Defining violence as a public health epidemic recasts problems of violence from a ...

Over the last two decades in the United States, I, public health practitioners, policy makers, and researchers have charted new territory by increasingly using public health strategies to understand and prevent youth violence, which has traditionally been considered a criminal justice problem. The utilization of public health approaches has generated several contributions to the understanding a...