Health effects of violence
Violence and its effects are serious public health problems in the United States1. Violence takes multiple forms and has a lasting, negative impact on individuals, families, communities, and society as a whole. Effects of violence include death, injury, and traumatic stress. Traumatic stress is the physical and emotional response to traumatic experiences (such as violence), with childhood traumatic stress in particular influencing health and well being across the life course and across generations.
Topics in understanding and intervening in violence and its effects
- Violence definitions and statistics
- Health effects of childhood exposure to violence
- Conceptual models of stress
- Conceptual models for explaining and intervening in violence
- Violence prevention and interruption
Related topics
- Disability, Chronic Illness, and Deafness
- Housing, Displacement, and Incarceration
- Migration and Deportation
- Militarism, War, and Policing
- Racism and Whiteness
- Gendered Inequality
Some RPH events about violence and its health effects
- 2014 03/03 After Tiller film screening
- 2014 01/11 Shock Doctrine film screening
- 2013 11/03 Stop Bloomberg's "Stop and Frisk" policy protest at American Public Health Association conference
- 2013 10/29 A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home
- 2013 10/16 How Does Housing Relate to Public Health?
- 2013 08/02 (endorsed and attended) IVAW's 2013 National Convention plenary event, 21st Century American Militarism: Occupation Abroad and Resistance at Home
- 2013 04/22 How to Survive a Plague film screening and panel discussion
- 2013 03/16 War and Peace: A Public Health Perspective on The Health Consequences of War conference
- 2013 03/14 (attended) Dr. John Rich & Dr. Ted Corbin — Viewing Urban Violence Through the Lens of Trauma
- 2013 03/12 Shattering Families: How Mass Incarceration Harms Parents and Children
- 2013 02/12 No More Deaths: Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime / Resistance, Immigrant Justice, and What We Can Do to Help
- 2013 02/07 (attended) Capitalism, Sexism and the Roots of Sexual Violence discussion at UIC's African-American Cultural Center, hosted by Chicago Socialists
- 2013 01/28 The House I Live In: Mass Incarceration, the Drug War, and Public Health film screening and panel discussion
- 2012 10/22 Status of Cholera Epidemic in Haiti resolution
- 2012 08/20 (attended) The Next Movement's Treating Drug Abuse as a Public Health Issue, Not a Crime forum and panel discussion at Stroger Hospital (followed by RPH social debriefing happy hour)
Resources
- Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: http://www.cdc.gov/ace/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Violence Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/overview/index.html
- Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice: Healing Hurt People http://www.nonviolenceandsocialjustice.org/Healing-Hurt-People/29/
- Community United Against Violence http://www.cuav.org/analysis-of-violence/
- Futures Without Violence http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/
- Generation Five http://www.generationfive.org/
- Harvard Center on the Developing Child http://developingchild.harvard.edu/
- INCITE! Women, Gender Non-Conforming, and Trans* People of Color Against Violence: http://www.incite-national.org/
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network http://www.nctsn.org/
- Prevent Connect http://www.preventconnect.org/
- Yes Means Yes, Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape: http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/
- Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network http://www.rainn.org/
- American Association of Suicidology http://www.suicidology.org/home
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