[women-rights] First World Report on Violence and Health

10 October 2002: CRINMAIL  416 - Publications
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- WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION: First World Report on Violence and Health [report]

This report is the first comprehensive review of the problem of violence at 
a global level. It focuses not only on the scale of the problem, but also 
covers issues related to the causes of violence and the methods for 
preventing violence and reducing its adverse health and social 
consequences. In addition to the familiar issues of collective violence 
such as war or conflict, the report examines equally significant yet 
frequently overlooked issues such as youth violence, child abuse, elderly 
abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and self-inflicted 
violence or suicides.

The data on youth violence show that youth homicide rates have increased in 
many parts of the world. For every young person killed by violence, an 
estimated 20-40 receive injuries that require treatment. Research shows 
that fighting and bullying are common among young people and that 
drunkenness is one of the situational factors found to precipitate 
violence. As far as child abuse is concerned, data from selected countries 
suggest that about 20% of women and 5-10% of men suffered sexual abuse as 
children.

For more information, contact:

World Health Organisation (WHO)
Marketing and Dissemination
CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Tel: 00 41 22 791 24 76; Fax: 00 41 22 791 48 57;
Email: publications@who.int;
Website: www.who.int

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