Preventing violence and reinforcing human security: a rights-based framework for top-down and bottom-up action Prevención de la violencia y refuerzo de la seguridad humana: un marco basado en los derechos humanos para la acción en sentidos descendente y ascendente

• Main Authors: Finn Kjaerulf, Rodrigo Barahona
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2010
• Subjects: violencia; medición de riesgo; salud pública; derechos humanos; América Latina; violence; risk assessment; public health; human rights; Latin America; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Penal; Intersección
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/6b34b6f3c4b94059a338bdf775eef40a

This article explores the violence reduction potential in the intersection between health, criminal justice, and development. It emphasizes public health, rule of law, and equality-driven socioeconomic development as principal concerns in preventing violence. In parts of Latin America, violence has...