Gun violence in the United States of America is a large public health problem that disproportionately affects urban areas. The epidemiology of gun violence reflects various aspects of an infectious disease including spatial and temporal clustering. We examined the spatial and temporal trends of gun violence in Syracuse, New York, a city of 145,000. We used a spatial scan statistic to reveal spa...

Media violence poses a threat to public health inasmuch as it leads to an increase in real-world violence and aggression. Research shows that fictional television and film violence contribute to both a short-term and a long-term increase in aggression and violence in young viewers. Television news violence also contributes to increased violence, principally in the form of imitative suicides and...

OBJECTIVE To describe the opinion of schoolage children, from a public school, regarding the violence they perceive in the media. MATERIAL AND METHODS Descriptive-exploratory research with a sample, selected according to the child's age in a public school. Quantitative data were collected. RESULTS There were found common issues related to the child's opinion about the violence present in th...

One of the most powerful predictors of violent political conflict is proximate violence in space and time. This spatiotemporal pattern has been identified between countries as well as within them. What explains this clustering is less clear, and different studies point to dif ferent mechanisms. Focusing on sub Saharan African states, we exam ine whether population attitudes may contribute to th...

ly. Instead, it is associated with specific incidents (whether experienced, witnessed or imagined) which take place due to particular causes and in particular places. The reverse is also true: certain spaces (such as neighbourhoods) may be associated with danger or violence. In thinking about our geographical environments, real spaces are overlaid with imagined maps expressing various assumptio...