A Public Health Approach to Violence: Ecological Model

• There are several approaches to understanding violent behaviour.

• The World Health Organization suggests an ecological model to understand the multitude of factors involved in an act of violence.

Can you match up the examples with the WHO category? [1]

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Now, how about some strategies to prevent violence?

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1. WHO (2002). World report on violence and health: summary. Geneva, World Health Organization.

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