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Parenting for lifelong Health: From South Africa to other low- and middle-income countries (2014)
Journal Article
Ward, C., Mikton, C., Cluver, L., Cooper, P., Gardner, F., Hutchings, J., …Wessels, I. (2014). Parenting for lifelong Health: From South Africa to other low- and middle-income countries

At present there are no parenting programmes that are both evidence-based and affordable for low- and middle-income countries, where the need is the greatest. Parenting for Lifelong Health aims to fill this gap. This article sets the context of viole... Read More about Parenting for lifelong Health: From South Africa to other low- and middle-income countries.

A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Persons With Disabilities (2014)
Journal Article
Mikton, C., Maguire, H., & Shakespeare, T. (2014). A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Persons With Disabilities. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 29(17), 3207-3226. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260514534530

© 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)
Journal Article
Betancourt, T. S., Mikton, C., MacMillan, H., Dua, T., & Betancourt, T. S. (2014). Integration of prevention of violence against children and early child development. Lancet Global Health, 2(8), e442-e443. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X%2814%2970233-5

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
Hughes, K., Bellis, M. A., Hardcastle, K. A., Butchart, A., Dahlberg, L. L., Mercy, J. A., & Mikton, C. (2014). Global development and diffusion of outcome evaluation research for interpersonal and self-directed violence prevention from 2007 to 2013: A systematic review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 19(6), 655-662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2014.09.006

© 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
Butchart, A., Mikton, C., & Krug, E. (2014). Governments must do more to address interpersonal violence. Lancet, 384(9961), 2183-2185. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2814%2962124-3

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.

Challenges and priorities for researchers (2014)
Book Chapter
Butchart, A., Mikton, C., Ward, C., & Donnelly, P. (2014). Challenges and priorities for researchers. In P. Donnelly, & C. Ward (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention: Epidemiology, Evidence, and Policy (323-328). Oxford: Oxford University Press

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