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In 1996, the Forty-Ninth World Health Assembly adopted Resolution WHA49.25, declaring violence a
major and growing public health problem across the world (see Box overleaf for full text).
In this resolution, the Assembly drew attention to the serious consequences of violence – both in the
short-term and the long-term – for individuals, families, communities and countries, and stressed the
damaging effects of violence on health care services.
The Assembly asked Member States to give urgent consideration to the problem of violence within their
own borders, and requested the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up public
health activities to deal with the problem.
This, the first World report on violence and health, is an important part of WHO’s response to Resolution
WHA49.25. It is aimed mainly at researchers and practitioners. The latter include health care workers, social
workers, those involved in developing and implementing prevention programmes and services, educators
and law enforcement officials. |
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