Violence Victimizes All Of Us
Today’s theme for National Public Health Week (April 3-9) is violence prevention. Very much like the opioid crisis covered yesterday on The PediaBlog , violence and its tragic outcomes are being felt all across the nation: National data show gun-related deaths are on the rise: in 2020, the U.S. was home to 19,384 homicides and 24,292 suicides involving guns. Those numbers are the highest documented levels in a decade. About one in three women and one in four men experience some form of intimate partner violence, and one out of every four American women has been the victim of rape or attempted rape. In 2020, 618,000 victims of child abuse and neglect were reported to local officials. Not all communities face the same rates or kinds of violence. For example, Black people are two times more likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts. In the last 30 years, according to a recent study published in JAMA , more than 1.1 million Americans died in an in...