Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1968; Volume 39, Number 6, Year 1968, Pages 883-897: Serological Malaria Surveys in Nigeria

By A. Voller

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Title:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1968; Volume 39, Number 6, Year 1968, Pages 883-897: Serological Malaria Surveys in Nigeria
Author:	A. Voller
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Excerpt
The Consultation on Preventive interventions in social violence was organized by the h710 Regional Office for iurcpe, in collsboration with the Government of Grcece. The Consultation vas arranged by Dr Christina Antoncpoul~u, Scientific Adviser in the Geusxal Secretariat for Equality, within the Ministry to the Prime Minister's GSfice of Creeco. It was attended by eight participants, from eight Member States, including sociologists, lawyers, psychologists, criminolugists and phy,sicians

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 . Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.1 Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.2 Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 . Extent and nature of the problem of domestic violence . . 2 3.1 Sources of information . Constraints . . . . . . . . . 2 3.2 Some figures on domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.3 Need for registration . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 . Awareness for the problem of domestic violence . . . . . . . 8 4.1 Growing political awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2 Domestic violence as a taboo subject . . . . . . . . . . 9 5 . Interventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.1 Long-term and short-term prevention . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.2 Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1O 5.3 Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.4 Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.5 Criminal policy measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6 . Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.1 Methods of evaluation of preventive interventions . . . 12 6.2 Successful interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.3 Fragmentation of services and resources . L2 7 . Conclusions and recommendations . . . . . . . 7.1 Primary prevention . . . . . . . . . . 7.2 Secondary prevention . . . . . . . . . 7.2.1 Early detection . . . . . . . . 7.2.2 Stop behaviour and/or repetition 7.3 Tertiary prevention . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 Fragmentation of resources and services 7.4.1 Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . 7.4.2 Creation of fragmentation . . . 7.4.3 Suggested action . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Annex 1 List of participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22