Citation

Ward CL, Lamb G. S. Afr. Med. J. 2015; 105(3): 183-184.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Safety and Violence Initiative, University of Cape Town. cathy.ward.sa@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, South African Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

26294821

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime jointly released the first Global Status Report on Violence Prevention on 10 December 2014. This editorial reviews the Report's perspective on violence prevention in South Africa (SA) and its implications for the SA health sector, as well as the recommendations of the Report for moving forward.

Language: en