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Reducing violence as the next great public health achievement

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  • Gary Slutkin

    (Gary Slutkin is the founder and CEO of Cure Violence, and professor of Epidemiology and Global Health at the University of Illinois, 1603 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.)

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Violence is the greatest public health problem of our time, but is the only epidemic in which the health sector is not leading the response, says Gary Slutkin.

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  • Gary Slutkin, 2017. "Reducing violence as the next great public health achievement," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 1(1), pages 1-1, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nathum:v:1:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1038_s41562-016-0025
    DOI: 10.1038/s41562-016-0025
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    1. Amy R. Krystosik & Andrew Curtis & A. Desiree LaBeaud & Diana M. Dávalos & Robinson Pacheco & Paola Buritica & Álvaro A. Álvarez & Madhav P. Bhatta & Jorge Humberto Rojas Palacios & Mark A. James, 2018. "Neighborhood Violence Impacts Disease Control and Surveillance: Case Study of Cali, Colombia from 2014 to 2016," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(10), pages 1-20, September.

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