[EQ] Violence prevention: the evidence

Violence prevention: the evidence

World Health organization WHO and Liverpool John Moores University launched Violence prevention: the evidence, an eight-part series of briefings on the evidence for interventions to prevent interpersonal and self-directed violence.

Website: http://www.preventviolence.info/

By spotlighting evidence for the effectiveness of interventions, Violence prevention: the evidence provides clear directions for how violence prevention funders, policy makers and programme implementers can boost the impact of their violence prevention efforts.

Overview
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/overview.pdf

Preventing violence through the development of  safe, stable and nurturing relationships between children and their parents and caregivers
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/parents.pdf

Preventing violence by developing life skills  in children and adolescents
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/life_skills.pdf

Preventing violence by reducing  the availability and harmful use of alcohol
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/alcohol.pdf

Guns, knives and pesticides: reducing access to lethal means
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/lethal.pdf

Promoting gender equality to prevent violence against women
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/gender.pdf

Changing cultural and social norms that support violence
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/norms.pdf

Reducing violence through victim identification, care and support programmes
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/programmes.pdf

Violence Prevention Evidence Base and Resources

Website: http://www.preventviolence.info/

This website provides an evidence-based resource for policy makers, practitioners, and others working to prevent violence. It includes a searchable data base of abstracts from published studies that measure the effectiveness of interventions to prevent child abuse, elder abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual violence and youth violence; key publications and resources on violence and its prevention; news and updates from the field of violence prevention; and links to relevant organizations.

 

 

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