Alexander Butchart
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Violence Prevention Open
Violence affects billions of peoples' lives annually, through death, injury, and detrimental impacts on neurological, cardiovascular, immune, and other biological systems. High-risk behaviours such as unsafe sex, harmful alcohol and drug u…
The Science of Scale for Violence Prevention: A New Agenda for Family Strengthening in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Open
Ending all violence against children by 2030 is a core part of Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 16. A number of promising violence reduction strategies have been identified in research studies. However, we lack an understanding of the i…
Violence prevention accelerators for children and adolescents in South Africa: A path analysis using two pooled cohorts Open
Background The INSPIRE framework was developed by 10 global agencies as the first global package for preventing and responding to violence against children. The framework includes seven complementary strategies. Delivering all seven strate…
Violence and public health Open
Violence is a major public health problem and in recent years has become increasingly important on the global public health agenda. This article provides an overview of the history and significance of interpersonal violence – including chi…
New WHO Violence Prevention Information System, an interactive knowledge platform of scientific findings on violence Open
Scientific information on violence can be difficult to compile and understand. It is scattered across websites, databases, technical reports and academic journals, and rarely addresses all types of violence. In response, in October 2017 WH…
Violence Info methodology Open
The Violence Prevention Information System (Violence Info) aims to improve access to scientific information about all types of interpersonal violence, including findings on prevalence rates, risk factors, consequences, and prevention and r…
The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: a systematic review and meta-analysis Open
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14 New horizons for global violence prevention Open
Developments in the global violence prevention field and the surrounding international policy context over the last four to five years have created new windows of opportunity to strengthen science-based approaches to understanding and prev…