This guide complements both the World report on violence and health and the 2003 World Health Assembly resolution 56.24 on implementing its nine recommendations. In addition to its specific component parts, four overarching themes distinguish the approach adopted in this guide:
• It deals with interpersonal violence as a whole. • It uses an ecological model to help understand the causes, consequences and prevention of interpersonal violence. • It promotes a public health approach for multi-sectoral prevention activities. • It addresses violence prevention as distinct from crime prevention.