Chapter 3

Question 1

What are the 4 natures violence?

Answer 1

Physical, sexual, psychological, and deprivation or neglect.

Question 2

Interpersonal violence and self-inflicted violence combined accounts for how much of the global injury mortality?

Answer 2

26%

Question 3

Interpersonal violence accounts for what percent of global injury mortality?

Answer 3

10%

Question 4

Self-inflicted violence accounts for what percent of the global injury mortality?

Answer 4

16%

Question 5

What region is violence most common in?

Answer 5

The Americas (AMR)

Question 6

What region has the highest suicide rate?

Answer 6

The Western Pacific Region

Question 7

What regions have more homicides than suicides?

Answer 7

The African Region (AFR) and the Americas (AMR).

Question 8

What regions have higher suicide rates than homicide rates?

Answer 8

The Western Pacific Region, the European Region, and the South East Asia Region

Question 9

Males in what age group have the highest suicide rate?

Answer 9

Males over 60 years old

Question 10

The homicide rate in males compared to women

Answer 10

Three times higher for men

Question 11

What male age group has the highest homicide rate?

Answer 11

15 to 29

Question 12

Public health approach to prevent violence.

Answer 12

1. Collect data
2. Investigate causes
3. Explore ways to prevent violence
4. Implement interventions

Question 13

The ecological model for understanding violence includes what interrelated categories?

Answer 13

Individual, relationship, community, societal.

Question 14

What percent of homicide occurs in low and middle income countries?

Answer 14

95%

Question 15

Youth homicide rates very considerably among regions and countries and are _______ in high income countries

Answer 15

Lower

Question 16

Spousal violence is _____ in gay and lesbian couples.

Answer 16

Higher

Question 17

Spousal violence is _______ in aboriginal couples

Answer 17

Higher

Question 18

The three steps in the Cycle of Violence Theory

Answer 18

1. Tension build up
2. Acute battering
3. Remorse/reconciliation

Question 19

What type of trauma as a result of abuse is the most common cause of death in young children?

Answer 19

Head trauma

Question 20

Sexual assault

Answer 20

Any act in which one person is sexually intimate with another person without consent

Question 21

In violence against older adults who is the offender in most cases?

Answer 21

Caregivers/offspring

Question 22

Do more or less women attempt suicide than men?

Answer 22

More women attempt suicide

Question 23

The rate of suicide for men is _______ than women

Answer 23

Three times higher

Question 24

Violence

Answer 24

Intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actually, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community that either results or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation.