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Health Promotion International, Vol. 17, No. 4, 293-295, December 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002

EDITORIAL

Violence and health: the ultimate public health challenge

Gordon Macdonald

Regional Editor, Western Europe
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Over the 15 years or so I have been involved in the editorial process of Health Promotion International, I cannot recall reading an article, published either as original research or as a perspective, on the vexing issue of violence and its effect on health. This is very surprising given the overwhelming evidence that violence, in one form or other, is a major contributor to premature death, injury and disability across the globe. Personal, mainly one-to-one violence such as homicide, attempted homicide and other non-fatal assaults, places a truly global burden on health. If we also consider the added effects of war or other types of organized or institutional violence, the burden in terms of lives lost and disability would be far greater.

Recent research has attempted to determine the global health burden of premature mortality and disability from all diseases and injury through a comprehensive methodological assessment (Murray and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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