Preventing injuries and violence : an overview
Preventing injuries and violence : an overview
World Health Organization
- World Health Organization, 2022
- electronic document (14 pages) ; PDF file
This brief advocacy document highlights the burden, risks and prevention of injuries and violence, which took the lives of 4.4 million people in 2019 and constitute 8% of all deaths. Among the injury-related causes of death include road traffic crashes, drowning, falls, burns, poisoning and violence against oneself or others. For people age 5-29 years, three of the top five causes of death are injury-related, including road traffic injuries, homicide, and suicide. Injuries and violence are not evenly distributed across or within countries – some people are more vulnerable than others depending on the conditions in which they are born, grow, work, live and age; in general, being young, male and of low socioeconomic status all increase the risk of injury. This document, aimed at public health professionals; injury prevention researchers, practitioners and advocates; and donors, draws attention to specific strategies based on sound scientific evidence that are effective and cost-effective at preventing injuries and violence; it is critical that these strategies are more widely implemented. (From the website). Record #7952
978-92-4-004713-6 (electronic version
ALCOHOL-RELATED HARM
BURNS
CHILD ABUSE
CHILD HOMICIDE
DROWNING
FALLS
HOMICIDE
INJURY PREVENTION
INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
PREVENTION
ROAD TRAFFIC INJURIES
STATISTICS
SUICIDE
VIOLENCE
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
WOUNDS AND INJURIES
INTERNATIONAL
This brief advocacy document highlights the burden, risks and prevention of injuries and violence, which took the lives of 4.4 million people in 2019 and constitute 8% of all deaths. Among the injury-related causes of death include road traffic crashes, drowning, falls, burns, poisoning and violence against oneself or others. For people age 5-29 years, three of the top five causes of death are injury-related, including road traffic injuries, homicide, and suicide. Injuries and violence are not evenly distributed across or within countries – some people are more vulnerable than others depending on the conditions in which they are born, grow, work, live and age; in general, being young, male and of low socioeconomic status all increase the risk of injury. This document, aimed at public health professionals; injury prevention researchers, practitioners and advocates; and donors, draws attention to specific strategies based on sound scientific evidence that are effective and cost-effective at preventing injuries and violence; it is critical that these strategies are more widely implemented. (From the website). Record #7952
978-92-4-004713-6 (electronic version
ALCOHOL-RELATED HARM
BURNS
CHILD ABUSE
CHILD HOMICIDE
DROWNING
FALLS
HOMICIDE
INJURY PREVENTION
INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
PREVENTION
ROAD TRAFFIC INJURIES
STATISTICS
SUICIDE
VIOLENCE
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
WOUNDS AND INJURIES
INTERNATIONAL