Linking Immuno-Epidemiology Principles to Violence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Societies have always struggled with violence, but recently there has been a push to understand violence as a public health issue. This idea has unified professionals in medicine, epidemiological, and psychology with a goal to end violence and heal those exposed to it. Recently, analogies have been made between community-level infectious disease epidemiology and how violence spreads within a community. Experts in public health and medicine suggest an epidemiological framework could be used to study violence.

Methods

Building upon results from community organizations which implement public health-like techniques to stop violence spread, we look to formalize the analogies between violence and infectious diseases. Then expanding on these ideas and using mathematical

SUBMITTER: Sisk A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9673202 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature