A case for studying country regimes in the public health model of violence

Many national and international institutions advocate approaching violence as a problem in public health and preventive medicine, in a manner similar to the way we address other disabling and life-threatening pathologies such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Prevention by a health model requi...

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Published in:Journal of public health policy 2016-09, Vol.37 (Suppl 1), p.133-144
Main Authors: Gilligan, James, Lee, Bandy X., Garg, Shikha, Blay-Tofey, Morkeh, Luo, Audrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advocacy
Aggression
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Conversation
Coronary artery disease
Criminology
Cultural Characteristics
Cultural values
Death & dying
Democracy
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus
Economic conditions
Economic factors
Economic models
Effects
Employment
Equality and Human Rights
Governance
Heart
Heart diseases
Homicide
Humans
Life threatening
Medical Sociology
Medicine
Mental health
Mortality rates
Political culture
Politics
Poverty
Prevention
Preventive medicine
Public Health
Social Justice
Social Policy
Social Sciences
Socioeconomic Factors
Sociology
Suicide
Sustainable development
Threatening
Unemployment
Viewpoint
Violence
Violence - statistics & numerical data
Violent death
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Summary:Many national and international institutions advocate approaching violence as a problem in public health and preventive medicine, in a manner similar to the way we address other disabling and life-threatening pathologies such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Prevention by a health model requires an ecological perspective. Previous work has found evidence that economic factors, including unemployment and relative poverty, as well as political culture and values, may affect violent death rates, including homicide and suicide. Nevertheless, wider political analyses of the effects that different regimes have on these variables have been notably absent, for understandable reasons given the sheer complexity of patterns of governance throughout the world. In view of the importance and scale of the problem, and implications of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development , we feel it is nevertheless important to bring regime types into the conversation of factors that can influence violent death.
ISSN:0197-5897
1745-655X
DOI:10.1057/s41271-016-0027-y