Violence Prevention Website

This website, Violence Prevention, is designed to provide a violence prevention resource for policy makers, practitioners, and others working to tackle and prevent violence both in the United Kingdom and globally. It is assembled by the Centre for Public Health, a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre, North West Public Health Observatory, of the Liverpool John Moores University. The centre seeks to promote and facilitate a public health approach to violence prevention through conducting original research, systematic literature reviews, and maintaining intelligence systems for measuring and monitoring violence. The website includes:

• "Evidence Base: abstracts of systematically reviewed literature providing evidence of measures that can work to prevent violence
•  Resources: key publications and resources on violence and prevention
• UK [United Kingdom] Violence and Injury Prevention Focal Point: UK specific information on violence and its prevention through the national Focal Point for Violence and Injury Prevention to the World Health Organization
• Violence Prevention Alliance: information and links to the global Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), including specific details and resources from the VPA Working Group on Youth Violence, Alcohol and Nightlife
• Violence Indicator Profiles for the English Regions (VIPER): data on violence for local authority areas across the English regions. Data provided includes hospital admissions for violence, police recorded violent crime and mortality data
• TEACH-VIP: is a comprehensive injury prevention and control education programme which has been developed through the efforts of WHO and a network of global injury prevention experts
• News: updates on new publications and events on violence prevention
• Links: signposting to relevant organisations and resources for violence prevention information
• Contribute: an opportunity for organisations to submit resources for inclusion in the site"

Child- and youth-related violence prevention is taken up in such articles as:

• A Large-Scale Evaluation of the KiVa Antibullying Program: Grades 4-6, Finland, Youth Violence, 2011
• Three-Year Results of the Friendly Schools Whole-of-School Intervention on Children’s Bullying Behaviour, United States of America, Youth Violence, 2011