Injury Prevention

Violence a growing public health problem in the Americas

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 8th, 2004

Violence has become one of the leading causes of death and a growing public health problem in the Americas and other regions of the world, according to a publication of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

However, public health advocates argue that violence is in large part a preventable problem.

Violence, which now claims the lives of more than a million people every year around the globe, is the subject of the cover story of the latest edition of Perspective in Health, the magazine of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The article analyzes the violence pandemic and how it affects the people and countries of the...

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