The evidence for violence prevention across the lifespan and around the world : workshop summary

The evidence for violence prevention across the lifespan and around the world : workshop summary / Leigh Carroll, Megan M. Perez, and Rachel M. Taylor, rapporteurs ; Forum on Global Violence Prevention, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies.

"The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a workshop convened in January 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Prevention to explore value and application of the evidence for violence prevention across the lifesp...

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Corporate Author: Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World (Workshop) Washington, D.C.)
Other Authors: Carroll, Leigh (rapporteur.), Perez, Megan M. (rapporteur.), Taylor, Rachel M. (rapporteur.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Violence > Prevention > Congresses.
World health > Congresses.
World health.
Violence > Prevention
World health
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Workshop overview
  • The need for evidence
  • Generating and integrating evidence
  • Disseminating evidence
  • Translating evidence into effective action
  • Papers and commentary from speakers
  • Implementation and scaling violence prevention interventions / Dean Fixsen, Karen Blase, Melissa Van Dyke, and Allison Metz
  • The federal role in promoting evidence-based violence prevention practices / Mary Lou Leary and Thomas P. Abt
  • Evidence for global violence prevention during adolescence and emerging adulthood / Jennifer L. Matjasko and Sarah Bacon
  • Can interventions reduce recidivism and revictimization following adult intimate partner violence incidents? / Christopher D. Maxwell and Amanda L. Robinson
  • Integrating evidence on violence prevention: an introduction / Anthony Petrosino
  • Making and using lists of empirically tested programs: value for violence interventions for progress and impact / Patrick H. Tolan.

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