Special focus: Violence, health, and human rights

In: Health and human rights, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 1-160

Abstract

Analyzes violence prevention from both a human rights and public health perspective, focusing on how the two approaches can work together; 8 articles. Summaries in French and Spanish. Contents: Violence, health, and human rights: toward a shared agenda for prevention, by Gro Harlem Brundtland; Homicide rates and human rights violations in São Paulo, Brazil: 1990 to 2002, by Nancy Cardia, Sergio Adorno, and Frederico Z. Poleto; Preventing child maltreatment: an integrated, multisectoral approach, by John W. Kydd; Integrating human rights and public health to prevent interpersonal violence, by Alison Phinney and Sarah de Hovre; Violence against women, by Susana T. Fried; Responding to violence against women: WHO's multicountry study on women's health and domestic violence, by Claudia Garcia-Moreno, et al.; Suicide and human rights: a suicidologist's perspective, by Antoon A. Leenaars; Human rights and conflict, by Jennifer Leaning.