EDITORIAL Violence: News on a public health problem

a resolution that declared violence to be a major and growing public health problem across the world. The resolution drew attention to the serious consequences of violence, both in the short and the long term, for individuals, families, communities and countries, and stressed the damaging effects of violence. The World Health Organization (WHO) was requested to set up public health activities to deal with the problem. In 2002, the WHO published the first world report on violence and health [1]. It addressed violence as a global health problem, and covered youth violence, child sexual abuse and neglect, intimate partner violence, abuse of the elderly, sexual violence, self-inflicted vio-lence, and collective violence (violence durin