The Role of Social Sciences in Advancing a Public Health Approach to Violence

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dc.contributor.authorBrodie, Nechama
dc.contributor.authorBowman, Brett
dc.contributor.authorNcube, Vuyolwethu
dc.contributor.authorDay, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-24T06:47:47Z
dc.date.available2023-04-24T06:47:47Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-02
dc.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.descriptionArticle published in the Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health
dc.description.abstractThe public health approach maintains that violence is shaped by a range of risk factors that can be altered, mitigated, or even eliminated. onceptualizing violence as a type of “preventable disease” has provided important insights and interventions but also introduces limitations that may not be sufficiently acknowledged or understood within this perspective, particularly in the Global South. This chapter briefly outlines the history of the public health approach to violence in South Africa before describing its yields and limits. It then draws on recent studies, which suggest that the integration of interdisciplinary approaches emerging from a strong social science tradition can mitigate many of the conceptual limitations of the public health approach. The chapter concludes by demonstrating how approaches to violence grounded in these sorts of frameworks promise to deliver context-rich explanations of violence alongside the socio-ecological accounts for violence favored by a public health approach.
dc.description.librarianCR2023
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.citationhttps://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-96778-9_95-1#citeas
dc.identifier.citationAbrahams N, Mathews S, Martin LJ, Lombard C, Jewkes R (2013) Intimate partner Femicide in South Africa in 1999 and 2009. PLoS Med 10(4):e1001412. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pmed.1001412
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-030-96778-9
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96778-9_95-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/35295
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.id0000-0002-2322-0861
dc.publisherHandbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health
dc.schoolSchool of Human and Community Development
dc.subjectPublic health
dc.subjectViolence
dc.subjectGlobal south
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectDecolonization
dc.subjectEpidemiology
dc.subjectHomicide
dc.subjectGender-based violence
dc.titleThe Role of Social Sciences in Advancing a Public Health Approach to Violence
dc.typeArticle
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