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Abstract
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VioLit summary:
OBJECTIVE:
This brief article by Rosenberg made a plea for understanding and appreciation by the health care community and associated researchers that there was a need for a common vocabulary to address violence.
METHODOLOGY:
The author posed rhetorical questions relating to the shortcomings caused by definitional impreciseness in terms used by health care professionals and social scientist researchers. Examples included "violence" as related to "intentional injuries" and "accident" as related to both "suicide" and "homicide" in terms of violent death.
FINDINGS/DISCUSSION:
Rosenberg concluded that in the epidemiology of injuries, the most fundamental need is for common vocabulary that can serve a diverse set of professionals working together on a multi-disciplinary endeavor (e.g., police working with sociologists, and prosecutors working with physicians).
AUTHOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS:
The commentary by the author in this article was, for the most part, a listing of his "recommendations" to overcome limitations in understanding the epidemiology of intentional injuries in society. Included were: a need for a common "language" for both terminology and for dollars (objective pricing of injuries and resultant losses to society); a need to focus on large-scale social factors (sexism, racism, segregation and poverty) in intentional injuries; a need for research on biochemical as well as neuro-physiological bases of violence and aggression; a need to examine impact biomechanics of firearm injuries as an aspect of intentional injury; and a need to study rehabilitative aspects of intentional injuries from a psychological as well as a physical state (for both victims and perpetrators of these injuries).
(CSPV Abstract - Copyright © 1992-2007 by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, Regents of the University of Colorado)
Injury Effects
Suicide Effects
Homicide Effects
Violence Effects
Research Recommendations
Public Health Personnel
Public Health Approach
Adult Knowledge
Injury Causes
Suicide Causes
Homicide Causes
Violence Causes
Professional Commentary
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