Prevention

Elizabeth A Wieling, Jaime Ballard, Christopher Mehus, Damir Utrzan Introduction: Increasing numbers of children are fleeing to the United States after exposure to war and conflict. Children exposed to war have high rates of negative health...

Suzy Clarkson, Judy Hutchings KiVa is a Finnish anti-bullying programme, developed at Turku University. It is based on robust research by the programme developer, Christina Salmivalli, that shows how the responses of bystanders maintain or...

Anthony Shakeshaft Introduction: Adolescents exposed to multiple, co-occurring risk factors experience disproportionately high rates of harm, and Indigenous adolescents are over-represented in this population. Despite this, little is known...

Cui Yang, Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Hongo Zhang, Nickolas Zaller Introduction: Research in China has found that MSM avoid HIV testing at clinics or public health departments due in part to stigma and fear of disclosure of their MSM...

Marsha Bowers, Helen Baker-Henningham, Yakeisha Scott Introduction: Corporal punishment is a widely used behaviour management strategy in Jamaican schools and exposure to corporal punishment at school is associated with poor child mental...

Mieke Snijder Introduction: Indigenous people of Australia experience a higher burden of health-related harm compared to non-Aboriginal Australians, which is most starkly evidenced by the Aboriginal life expectancy being an estimated 10...

Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Cui Yang, Nickolas Zaller, Hongo Zhang Introduction: In China, the proportion of HIV cases attributed to men who have sex with men (MSM) behavior has rapidly increased in recent years, with over one-quarter of...

Steven M. Kogan, Sophie Walsh, Megan Hicks The Ethiopian families who are the focus of the present study emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel in the 1980s-1990s. Escaping civil war, famine, and religious persecution, these families have...

Jeremy Segrott, Jo Holliday, Jonathan Scourfield, David Foxcroft, Simon Murphy Introduction: Trials of family-based prevention interventions often face challenges in recruitment and retention, leading to methodological issues. However...

Joan E. Durrant, Dominique Pierre Plateau In 2015, the United Nations set out a new sustainable development agenda based on human rights standards. One of its 17 goals is to end all forms of violence against children by 2030. An indicator...