Vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades Epidemiologic surveillance for the prevention and control of urban violence
Violence prevention policies should be based on information, follow-up, research, and analysis, all of which increase the chances of success and make it easier to evaluate interventions. This implies, in turn, that there is a need to create surveillance, research, and prevention models for violence...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:07ab2c23e0bd4171aa0d87816fbf7e1b 2023-05-15T15:06:38+02:00 Vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades Epidemiologic surveillance for the prevention and control of urban violence Alberto Concha-Eastman Rodrigo Guerrero 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/07ab2c23e0bd4171aa0d87816fbf7e1b EN ES PT eng spa por Pan American Health Organization http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49891999000400023 https://doaj.org/toc/1020-4989 https://doaj.org/toc/1680-5348 1020-4989 1680-5348 https://doaj.org/article/07ab2c23e0bd4171aa0d87816fbf7e1b Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, Vol 5, Iss 4-5, Pp 322-331 (1999) Medicine R Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 1999 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T14:54:23Z Violence prevention policies should be based on information, follow-up, research, and analysis, all of which increase the chances of success and make it easier to evaluate interventions. This implies, in turn, that there is a need to create surveillance, research, and prevention models for violence within the sphere of public health and epidemiology, a task that constitutes an integral part of the Pan American Health Organization's Regional Plan of Action Health and Violence. This article describes the objectives of epidemiologic surveillance systems and explains their purpose and scope, along with the barriers that stand in the way of their implementation. It also examines a number of variables and their definitions, the types of analyses and reports that should be generated, and the decisions that can be made on the basis of these reports. Finally, it discusses ethical criteria and describes the experiences of the program known as Desarrollo, Seguridad y Paz (DESEPAZ) in Cali and Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia, where an epidemiologic surveillance system against violence has been implemented. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic |
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Violence prevention policies should be based on information, follow-up, research, and analysis, all of which increase the chances of success and make it easier to evaluate interventions. This implies, in turn, that there is a need to create surveillance, research, and prevention models for violence within the sphere of public health and epidemiology, a task that constitutes an integral part of the Pan American Health Organization's Regional Plan of Action Health and Violence. This article describes the objectives of epidemiologic surveillance systems and explains their purpose and scope, along with the barriers that stand in the way of their implementation. It also examines a number of variables and their definitions, the types of analyses and reports that should be generated, and the decisions that can be made on the basis of these reports. Finally, it discusses ethical criteria and describes the experiences of the program known as Desarrollo, Seguridad y Paz (DESEPAZ) in Cali and Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia, where an epidemiologic surveillance system against violence has been implemented. |
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Vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades Epidemiologic surveillance for the prevention and control of urban violence |
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Vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades Epidemiologic surveillance for the prevention and control of urban violence |
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Vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades Epidemiologic surveillance for the prevention and control of urban violence |
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Vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades Epidemiologic surveillance for the prevention and control of urban violence |
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Vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades Epidemiologic surveillance for the prevention and control of urban violence |
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vigilancia epidemiológica para la prevención y el control de la violencia en las ciudades epidemiologic surveillance for the prevention and control of urban violence |
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