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Violence

Africa

• WHO African Region
  • Violence and Health in the WHO African Region [2010]
  • Violence

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Violence Prevention

Australia

• Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
  • The Impact of COVID-19 on Trends of Violence-Related Offences in Australia [2023]

• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
  • Abuse and violence

Brazil

• Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
  • Prevalence of exposure to violence among adults - Brazil, 2019 [2021]

Canada

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Violence and abuse

Chile

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Epidemiology of Violent Deaths in Chile between 2001 and 2018: Prevalence, Trends, and Correlates [2022]

Europe

• WHO European Region
  • Violence and injuries in Europe: burden, prevention and priorities for action [2020]
  • Strategies and interventions on preventing and responding to violence and injuries among refugees and migrants: Technical guidance [2020]
  • Violence and injuries EURO
  • Violence & Injury Prevention

International

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Community Violence as a Population Health Issue: Proceedings of a Workshop [2017]

New Zealand

• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • Prevalence of interpersonal violence against women and men in New Zealand: results of a cross-sectional study [2022]

United Kingdom

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Serious Violence Duty: strategic needs assessments

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Violence and aggression: short-term management in mental health, health and community settings [2015]

• NHS England
  • NHS violence prevention and reduction standard: guidance notes [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Conflicting trends in violent crime measured by police recorded crime and the crime survey in England and Wales since 2010 [2025]

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Role of the Pediatrician in Youth Violence Prevention [2009]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2022 [2025]
  • Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 48 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2021 [2024]
  • Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 48 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2020 [2023]
  • Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 42 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2019 [2022]
  • Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 39 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2018 [2022]
  • Vital Signs: Prevalence of Multiple Forms of Violence and Increased Health Risk Behaviors and Conditions Among Youths — United States, 2019 [2021]
  • Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 32 States, 2016 [2019]
  • Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 27 States, 2015 [2018]
  • Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 18 States, 2014 [2018]
  • Violence Prevention

• JAMA
  • Violence in the United States: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities [2015]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Homicide Rates Across County, Race, Ethnicity, Age, and Sex in the US: A Global Burden of Disease Study [2025]

• Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect
  • Practitioners’ Views on Elder Mistreatment Research Priorities: Recommendations from a Research-to-Practice Consensus Conference [2011]

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Managing, Reducing, and Preventing Fear of Violence: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief [2020]
  • Public Policy Approaches to Violence Prevention: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief [2018]
  • Identifying the Role of Violence and Its Prevention in the Post-2015 Global Agenda: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief [2018]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO Violence Prevention Unit: approach, objectives and activities, 2022-2026 [2022]
  • Tackling abuse of older people: five priorities for the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030) [2022]
  • Preventing injuries and violence: an overview [2022]
  • Violence Prevention through Multisectoral Collaboration: An International Version of the Collaboration Multiplier Tool to Prevent Interpersonal Violence [2020]
  • Addressing violence against children, women and older people during the covid-19 pandemic: Key actions [2020]
  • Strengthening the role of the health system in addressing violence, in particular against women and girls, and against children [2014]
  • Injuries and violence: the facts 2014 [2014]
  • Global status report on violence prevention 2014 [2014]
  • Violence, injuries and disability: biennial report 2010-2011 [2012]
  • Violence prevention : the evidence [2010]
  • Reducing violence through victim identification, care and support programmes [2009]
  • Changing cultural and social norms that support violence [2009]
  • Preventing violence and reducing its impact : how development agencies can help [2008]
  • Manual for estimating the economic costs of injuries due to interpersonal and self-directed violence [2008]
  • Preventing injuries and violence : a guide for ministries of health [2007]
  • Preventing violence: a guide to implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health [2004]
  • World report on violence and health [2002]
  • Framework guidelines for addressing workplace violence in the health sector [2002]
  • Violence prevention (Global Health Observatory)
  • Violence and harassment
  • Violence Prevention Alliance
  • Violence Info – A global knowledge platform for preventing violence
  • Preventing violence against health workers
  • Injuries and violence: Fact sheet
  • Injuries and violence
  • Extent of implementation of mental health services for victims of all types of violence
  • Building capacity for violence and injury prevention

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Understanding deaths from violence and injury in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region: using WHO’s 2021 global health estimates for a targeted response [2024]
  • Violence, injuries and disability
  • Violence

WHO South-East Asia Region

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Fact Sheet: Violence prevention in the South-East Asia Region [2014]

WHO Western Pacific Region

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Violence in Western Pacific
  • Preventing and responding to violence and injuries

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Violence against women, gender-based violence
  • Sexual violence, sexual abuse, sexual harassment
  • Obstetric violence, mistreatment of women during childbirth, respectful maternal and newborn care
  • Intimate partner violence during pregnancy
  • Domestic violence, intimate partner violence
  • Child abuse