Health Care

Author: Linda Chamberlain, PhD, MPH
Revised in 2005

How can we engage public health leaders to respond to family violence? The FVPF developed a tool (on CD with an accompanying guidebook) that makes the connection between family violence and leading public health concerns and presents effective strategies for responding. This evidence-based tool offers the most relevant research on family violence, implications for select public health programs, recommended clinical and policy strategies, promising practices and resources from around the country.

This PowerPoint Presentation and accompanying guidebook helps presenters by providing evidence and "speaker's notes" for each slide to make the case for violence prevention to public health leaders. A presenter may opt to present on any of the following areas and may mix and match sections depending on their audience:

Presenter Slides

Note: Each of the files is available in Powerpoint (.ppt) format.

Introduction (1.8MB)
Overview & Epidemiology (7.6MB)
Women's Health (5.5MB)
Mental Health & Substance Abuse (4.5MB)
Family Planning (5MB)
Sexually Transmitted Infections & HIV (4.9MB)
Perinatal Programs (6.6MB)
Breastfeeding and Nutritional Supplements (4MB)
Child and Adolescent Health (9.6MB)
Injury and Violence Prevention (4.2MB)
Regional and Local Data on Domestic Violence (1.9MB)

Making the Connection Guidebook (7.4MB) PDF
Bibliography (160K) PDF

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