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Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study (2017)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Purpose: Violence against children increases in adolescence, but there is a research and practice gap in research-supported child abuse prevention for the adolescent years. A pilot program for low-resource settings was d... Read More about Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study.

Moving research beyond the spanking debate (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Despite numerous studies identifying a broad range of harms associated with the use of spanking and other types of physical punishment, debate continues about its use as a form of discipline. In this commentary, we recommend four... Read More about Moving research beyond the spanking debate.

Elder abuse prevalence in community settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY license Background Elder abuse is recognised worldwide as a serious problem, yet quantitative syntheses of prevalence studies are rare. We aimed to quanti... Read More about Elder abuse prevalence in community settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Global research priorities for interpersonal violence prevention: A modified Delphi study (2016)
Journal Article

© 2017, World Health Organization. All rights reserved. Objective To establish global research priorities for interpersonal violence prevention using a systematic approach. Methods Research priorities were identified in a three-round process involvin... Read More about Global research priorities for interpersonal violence prevention: A modified Delphi study.

Global status report on violence prevention 2014 (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Introduction Interpersonal violence affects millions of people worldwide, often has lifelong consequences, and is gaining recognition as an important global public health problem. There has been no asse... Read More about Global status report on violence prevention 2014.

Measuring and monitoring national prevalence of child maltreatment: A practical handbook (2016)
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Methods for conducting systematic reviews of risk factors in low- and middle-income countries (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Shenderovich et al. Background: Rates of youth violence are disproportionately high in many low- and middle-income countries [LMICs] but existing reviews of risk factors focus almost exclusively on high-income countries. Different search strat... Read More about Methods for conducting systematic reviews of risk factors in low- and middle-income countries.

Preventing child maltreatment in low- and middle-income countries. Parent support programs have the potential to buffer the effects of poverty (2015)
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The impact on staff of working with personality disordered offenders: A systematic review (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Freestone et al. Background: Personality disordered offenders (PDOs) are generally considered difficult to manage and to have a negative impact on staff working with them. Aims: This study aimed to provide an overview of studies examining the... Read More about The impact on staff of working with personality disordered offenders: A systematic review.

Global status report on violence prevention 2014 (2015)
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The Global status report on violence prevention 20141 describes what countries are doing to address interpersonal violence, and is a joint publication of WHO, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and United Nations Development Programme. Interpe... Read More about Global status report on violence prevention 2014.

Adapting and retesting evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs: A case study in Canada (2015)
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Commentary

Global strategies to reduce violence by 50% in 30 Years: Findings from the WHO and University of Cambridge Global Violence Reduction Conference 2014 (2015)
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Report detailing findings from the WHO and University of Cambridge Global Violence Reduction Conference 2014

Toolkit on mapping legal, health and social services responses to child maltreatment (2015)
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The toolkit, developed with academic from several countries, provides researchers with guidance for improving the quality of studies that use administrative data to better ascertain child maltreatment incidence, response and service delivery.

A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Persons With Disabilities (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2014. Persons with disabilities make up some 15% of the world’s population and are at higher risk of violence. Yet there is currently no systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions to prevent violence against them. Thus th... Read More about A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Persons With Disabilities.

Integration of prevention of violence against children and early child development (2014)
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Despite important scientific advances in how violence against children can disrupt healthy early development,the study of these issues has developed in relative isolation. Both areas are increasing in prominence,but so far there has been little call... Read More about Integration of prevention of violence against children and early child development.

Global development and diffusion of outcome evaluation research for interpersonal and self-directed violence prevention from 2007 to 2013: A systematic review (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Through a global review, we identified gaps in the geographical distribution of violence prevention evidence outcome evaluation studies and the types of violence addressed. Systematic literature searches... Read More about Global development and diffusion of outcome evaluation research for interpersonal and self-directed violence prevention from 2007 to 2013: A systematic review.

Governments must do more to address interpersonal violence (2014)
Journal Article

The Global status report on violence prevention 2014,1 jointly published by WHO, UNDP, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, was launched on Dec 11, 2014. For the first time, it assesses national efforts to address interpersonal violence, which inclu... Read More about Governments must do more to address interpersonal violence.

Introduction to Special Issue on Violence Against People With Disability (2014)
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Global status report on violence prevention, 2014 (2014)
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The Global status report on violence prevention 2014, which reflects data from 133 countries, is the first report of its kind to assess national efforts to address interpersonal violence, namely child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner an... Read More about Global status report on violence prevention, 2014.

Challenges and priorities for researchers (2014)
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