Global suicide.(World Health Organization report) From: The Forensic Examiner | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Gross, Bruce | COPYRIGHT 2006 American College of Forensic Examiners. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In 2002 the World Health Organization (WHO) released the first World Report on Violence and Health (Krug et al., 2002). Finding that acts of violence result in more than 1.6 million deaths per year, the WHO considers violence to be a global public health problem of pandemic proportion. Unlike other studies of violence, the WHO went beyond obvious domains of violence (i.e., war and homicide) and included more pervasive sources of violence such as child and elder abuse, domestic viol...