A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of the Cure Violence Approach.

ABSTRACT: The Cure Violence approach applies public health epidemic control strategies to reduce violence in highly impacted communities and countries. This paper conducts a systematic review to identify studies analyzing the effectiveness of the Cure Violence approach and provides an overview of their findings. A protocol was developed using the PRISMA guidelines. For this study, we examined findings related only to shootings and killings because these are the outcomes to which the Cure Violence approach is applied. We utilized PubMed database, Google Scholar, and the Cure Violence Global organizational files to look for relevant studies. The review identified 13 papers analyzing 27 program sites and offering 83 findings on the impact of the approach on either shootings or killings. Overall, 68.7%

SUBMITTER: Ransford C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12420962 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature