New violence prevention website

WHO and Liverpool John Moores University's Centre for Public Health have launched a new website highlighting what works to prevent violence. Addressed to policy-makers and violence prevention researchers, practitioners and advocates, the website is a useful tool providing data-base of information on effective violence prevention programmes.

Violence can be prevented and its impact reduced by adopting an evidence-based public health approach. Such an approach seeks to prevent violence before it occurs, by reducing the factors that place people at risk and reinforcing those which protect them.

On the website you can find:

• Data base of abstracts from published studies that measure the effectiveness of interventions to prevent violence.
• Resources including key publications on violence and its prevention;
• Information and links to relevant organizations, including the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), a WHO-led network of agencies dedicated to preventing violence using the public health approach;
• News including updates on new violence prevention events and publications;
• An opportunity for organizations to contribute to the web site by submitting resources.

     
More information at http://www.nwph.net/preventviolence/default.aspx