Editorial: Violence and the Young: A Public Health Problem - Etiology, Epidemiology, Intervention, and Prevention

摘要

Violence, particularly among young people, has long been identified as an important global publichealth issue by (1). With the publication of the World Report on Violence and Health (WRVH),the issue was propelled onto the international health agenda (2). To provide a platform for abetter understanding of violence, facilitating data collection for epidemiological investigation, anddesigning intervention strategies appropriate for the prevention of violence, a framework wasproposed in the WRVH (2). In this framework, there consisted of a matrix combining the broadtypes of violence and the nature of violence to further enhance the structural understanding of themultiplicity of the construct. Three broad types of violence reflecting the agency or the perpetratorsof violence, namely self-directed, interpersonal, and collective, were included with physical, sexual,psychological, and deprivation, and neglect as the nature of violence (2). To provide furtherexposition on the matrix, Rutherford and colleagues also came up with a glossary for each categoryof violence with clear definitions (3).