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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"youth violence prevention"”.
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Emergency medicine registrars' attitudes towards youth violence prevention interventions in Cape Town emergency centres
… The City of Cape Town, South Africa, has a large youth violence problem with the highest percentage of non-natural deaths per age group in Cape Town occurring between 15 and 24 years of age. Many authorities suggest that youth violence is preventable and there is a fast growing international …
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School Directors’ Perspectives of Physical Education in El Salvador: A Qualitative Case Study
Youth violence is El Salvador’s most imperative social, economic and health problem today. In an attempt to contribute to youth violence prevention in the country, humanistic physical education has been implemented within schools. Using case study methodology, this study examines twelve Salvadoran …
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Organizational Capacity to Absorb External Knowledge: An Exploratory Study of Public and Nonprofit Decision Makers' Perceptions of Impediments and Facilitators
Research indicates that many youth-serving agencies do not adopt evidence-based innovations in the field of youth violence prevention. This qualitative study was designed to explore a sample of community-based decision makers’ perceptions of why innovative, evidence-based programs and practices for …
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Violence Prevention Programming in Secondary Public Schools in Virginia
Across the United States violent behavior among youth, particularly adolescents, ages 10 to 19, is occurring at alarmingly high rates. Current literature and statistical data both concur that homicide is the leading cause of death for this age group. This phenomenon is not the result of a single …