Violence Prevention and Lifestyle Medicine: An Imperative for All Health Care Practitioners

摘要

The American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM) is delighted to collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to publish an entire issue of AJLM devoted to violence prevention. This issue follows a previous collaborative effort in 2009 where AJLM devoted an entire issue to lifestyle medicine and unintentional injury prevention. Violence is an unfortunate reality in the world we inhabit. It can have devastating consequences on the health and well-being of victims at any age. It is imperative that health care practitioners understand that violence represents not just a health issue. It is particularly important for those of us who are interested in the area of lifestyle medicine because aspects of lifestyle create increased risk for violence. There are also enormous opportunities to study and emerging science related to strategies that lower risk factors for violence or, in many instances, prevent it.