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Preventing violence and reinforcing human security: a rights-based framework for top-down and bottom-up action

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2010
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Kjaerulf, Finn
Barahona, Rodrigo
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This article explores the violence reduction potential in the intersection between health, criminal justice, and development. It emphasizes public health, rule of law, and equality-driven socioeconomic development as principal concerns in preventing violence. In parts of Latin America, violence has become a serious public health and security problem. Prior studies have explored the risk factors associated with violence as well as experiences in its prevention. These studies and existing approaches to violence prevention provide evidence on where to direct attention and build prevention efforts. This article argues for integrated community-driven and national interventions to create cooperative national- local linkages and embed international human rights law at the national and local levels. Nations struggling with violence should be encouraged to apply an integrated framework to prevent violence and reinforce human security.(AU)
 
En este artículo se analiza la posibilidad de disminuir la violencia en la intersección entre la salud, la justicia penal y el desarrollo. Se hace hincapié en la salud pública, el imperio de la ley y el desarrollo socioeconómico regido por la igualdad, como inquietudes principales en la prevención de la violencia. En algunas partes de América Latina, la violencia se ha convertido en un problema grave de salud pública y de seguridad. En estudios anteriores se han analizado los factores de riesgo vinculados a la violencia, así como las experiencias en su prevención. Estos estudios y los métodos existentes de prevención de la violencia aportan datos probatorios acerca de dónde debe dirigirse la atención y dónde deben emprenderse iniciativas de prevención. Este artículo aboga por intervenciones comunitarias y nacionales integradas, a fin de crear vínculos de colaboración nacional y local, e instituir la legislación internacional de derechos humanos en los ámbitos nacional y local. Se debe alentar a los países que luchan contra la violencia a que adopten un marco integrado con miras a prevenir la violencia y reforzar la seguridad humana.(AU)
 
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Rev Panam Salud Publica;27(5),mayo 2010
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Violence; Risk Assessment; Public Health; Human Rights; Latin America; Violencia; Medición del Riesgo; Salud Pública; Derechos Humanos; América Latina; Direitos Humanos; Saúde Pública; Segurança; Violência; Direitos Civis; Saúde da Família; Homicídio; Homicídio; Desenvolvimento Humano; Direitos Humanos; Política; Saúde Pública; Justiça Social; Fatores Socioeconômicos; Tortura; Valor da Vida; Violência; Equidad, Salud y Desarrollo Humano; Equidade, Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano; Equity, Health and Human Development
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https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/9691
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Kjaerulf, Finn,Barahona, Rodrigo (2010) Preventing violence and reinforcing human security: a rights-based framework for top-down and bottom-up action. Rev Panam Salud Publica;27(5) 382-395,may 2010. Retrieved from http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892010000500009
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