Children and Small Arms Resource Guide: Public Health Approaches
Children and Small Arms Resource Guide: Public Health Approaches

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense
Published by: The South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC)
Keywords: Small Arms; SALW; Small Arms and Light Weapons
Summary/Abstract: The public health approach is a particularly useful way of looking at the issue of small arms in relation to children and young people, as it is an evidence-based approach. One of the difficulties of developing policies and programmes on this issue is the lack of quality data on the impact of small arms on children and young people. Since 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) has taken up the issue of violence as a public health issue, producing the World Report on violence and health in 2002, and follow-up reports in 2004 and 2005. WHO explicitly named small arms as a public health issue, and part of the issue of violence as a public health problem, in its report Small Arms and Global Health in 2001. WHO has also collaborated with UNDP on the Armed Violence Prevention programme. Most recently, the comprehensive account of small arms as a global issue, written by Wendy Cukier and Victor Siedel, The Global Gun Epidemic: From Saturday Night Specials to AK-47s takes an explicitly public health approach.

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