Public Health and the “Disease” of Violence: A Retrospective
Updated: 2024-08-27 09:00:30
: Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About Public Health and the âDiseaseâ of Violence : A Retrospective Posted on August 27, 2024 by Chris Pak Blog by Sophie Franklin Part of the Public Health Humanities Series And if disease is violence , and yet is within human control , is it not true that violence itself , at least , to some extent , is susceptible of being removed âWilliam A . Alcott 1 The question of whether violence can be eradicated like a disease may seem to be a twenty-first-century phenomenon . After all , the WHO declared violence to be a major global health burden in the late 1990s , which has led to the widespread implementation of public health approaches to violence