Citation

Merrick J, Kandel I, Omar HA. Front. Public Health 2013; 1: 32.

Affiliation

Division of Adolescent Medicine, Kentucky Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky , Lexington, KY, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Frontiers Editorial Office)

DOI

10.3389/fpubh.2013.00032

PMID

24350201

Abstract

Adolescent or youth violence is a very visible violence in our modern society, where you just have to open the newspaper or the television and you find yourself right in the middle of it. In order to understand the scope of the problem, we need to look at the epidemiology of global violence. In 1996 the World Health Assembly declared violence a leading public health issue and as a result of this resolution a comprehensive report was published in 2002....

Language: en