2.1 A brief introduction to the epidemiology of violence against children
Welcome to Section 2.1 A brief introduction to the epidemiology of violence against children!
Amiya Bhatia, Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
Amiya explores definitions and the global prevalence of violence against children and introduces a public health approach to studying the epidemiology of violence against children and youth. Key considerations include:
The international classification of violence against children
The ages and stages of children young people and how this shapes the places children and young people live, play, learn, work, and spend time in
The types of violence children experience and how these change and accumulate across the life course as children grow up
The perpetrators of violence against children
Inequalities in violence and understanding which groups of children unfairly and unequally experience violence
Locating violence within the social ecology to engage with the interpersonal, institutional, structural drivers of violence and the interaction between these levels
Learn more about the epidemiology of violence against children
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