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Summary of Report Recommendations

   Recommendations of the World Report on Violence and Health

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  • Create, implement and monitor a national action plan for violence prevention
  • Enhance capacity for collecting data on violence
  • Define priorities for, and support research on the causes, consequences, costs and prevention of violence
  • Promote primary prevention responses
  • Strengthen responses for victims of violence
  • Integrate violence prevention into social and educational policies, and thereby promote gender and social equality
  • Increase collaboration and exchange of information on violence prevention
  • Promote and monitor adherence to international treaties, laws and other mechanisms to protect human rights
  • Seek practical, internationally-agreed responses to the global drugs trade and the global arms trade

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