Part 2: The Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention
Introduction
The Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention, the second presentation in Module 1, provides an overview to public health--what it is, what it isn't and how public health focuses on primary prevention in order to improve the health and safety of the whole population.
Competencies addressed:
- Ability to describe and explain injury and/or violence as a major social and health problem.
- Explain how injury and/or violence is preventable
- Describe an approach to prevention that includes the following steps: (1) problem detection/assessment, (2) identification of risk and protective factors, (3) development of interventions and (4) evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions
- Explain the continuum of injury and violence prevention from primary prevention to acute care and rehabilitation
- Ability to access, interpret, use and present injury and/or violence data.
- Describe how data can be used to identify disparate populations
- Explain how data can be used to identify emerging issues in injury and/or violence
- Explain the importance of data for use in priority setting, program planning, evaluation, and advocacy in injury and/or violence prevention
Learning objectives:
- Describe common misconceptions about public health
- Describe key concepts of public health
- Describe the public health approach
- Describe examples of the core functions in action
Suggested prerequisites:
Length of presentation: 30 minutes
Terms used in this presentation: Evidence-based, Population-based health, Prevention, Primary prevention, Protective factors, Risk factors, Secondary prevention, and Tertiary prevention
Created and narrated by: Janet Place, MPH
Music: Janet Place
Reviewers: Carol Runyan, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center; Richard Dunville, Janet Saul, and Jennifer Middlebrooks, The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC; Pete Hutchinson, Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities
Date of release: July 2005