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THIRD MILESTONES OF A GLOBAL CAMPAIGN

FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION REPORT 2007

Governments Make Progress in Interpersonal Violence Prevention

National Efforts Leading to Significant Progress, Reports WHO

16 JULY 2007 | GENEVA -- Governments around the world are taking new and stronger measures to quell interpersonal violence and its life-long health consequences, a new WHO report shows. This week in Scotland, 200 of the world's leading experts in preventing violence gather for "Milestones 2007", to assess the advances that have been made, identify strategies for further expanding these, and advocate for increased investment by international development partners.

Related links

:: Report: third milestones of a global campaign for violence prevention 2007 [pdf 2.01Mb]

:: Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention

:: Violence Prevention Alliance

:: Health topic: violence

In the context of Milestones 2007, the WHO report documents progress in countries since 2002. Some key national achievements are:

"With an improved understanding about what works to prevent violence in families and communities, the violence prevention field has reached a critical turning point," notes Dr Catherine Le Galès-Camus, WHO Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health. "Milestones 2007 is an opportunity to draw lessons from the good work being done in many countries and define ways to scale up implementation in countries around the world."

Increased efforts to scale up violence prevention come when health policy makers and practitioners begin to fully understand the long-term consequences of violence.

For instance, a 2004 WHO study reported that the lifetime impacts of child sexual abuse account for approximately

Other studies have also linked child physical abuse, intimate partner violence and sexual violence to excessive smoking, eating disorders, and high-risk sexual behaviour, which in turn are associated with some of the leading causes of death including HIV/AIDS, cancers and cardiovascular disorders.

"Globally, the greatest challenge to scaling up violence prevention efforts remains a lack of investment in scientific, large-scale outcome evaluation studies, especially from low- and middle-income countries, where both the burden of violence and the cost of failure to invest in effective prevention are the highest," notes Dr Etienne Krug, Director of WHO's Department of Violence and Injury Prevention. "With those studies in hand, we would be well placed to scale up and globalize prevention."

Milestones 2007 is being hosted for WHO by the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit in Kincardine, Scotland, United Kingdom, from 17 to 19 July 2007. It is the third in a series of meetings marking the anniversary of the launch of the landmark World report on violence and health released by WHO in 2002.

The impact of violence

The report demonstrated the extent of the impact of violence. In 2002 (the latest year for which global estimates are available) an estimated 1.6 million people lost their lives to violence; more than 90% of those deaths are concentrated in low- and middle-income countries. Physical, sexual and psychological abuse undermines the health and well-being of many millions of people in all countries on a daily basis. Suicide and homicide are the 5th and 6th leading causes of death in people aged 15-44 years. Between three and seven million adolescents and young adults receive hospital treatment each year for a violence-related injury.

"For the Violence Reduction Unit, the World report on violence and health was a revelation, in that it offered an innovative approach to the traditional methods of policing violent crime," notes Detective Superintendent John Carnochan, Head of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit. "We are pleased to host Milestones 2007, and to share our experiences and learn from others."

Evidence shows that a major proportion of violence-related death and suffering is avoidable through investment in positive approaches such as

Cost-effectiveness studies show that most of these strategies are less expensive to implement than paying the costs of responding to violence.

In addition to showcasing some of the significant violence prevention work under way around the world, Milestones 2007 will serve as a platform for discussing scaled-up country implementation of these recommendations, and efforts to measure effectiveness using the outcomes that really matter - such as rates for violence-related deaths, non-fatal injuries and other violence-related health conditions.





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