[Discussion] VIOLENCE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE - CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITATION FOR PARTI CIPATION”

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

VIOLENCE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE - CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITATION FOR 
PARTICIPATION”
Violence continues to be one of the leading causes of morbidity, injury, 
disability and death among the young male population, particularly in 
urban areas. Domestic violence is a significant, world wide problem. 
What does social research tell us about the dynamics of violence against 
women? Pregnancy and violence: why does the severity of emotional 
violence increase during pregnancy? When does physical and sexual 
violence decrease? Violence against children, adolescents and the 
elderly – at home and in the streets. Violence in the office and the 
work place. Structural violence. Emotional violence and the relationship 
between different forms of violence and depression. Inter-generational 
transfer of violent behavior. Torture as institutional violence. Health 
conditions in prisons, violence in prisons including violence among 
inmates. Violence and the role of the media. How does violence structure 
and shape everyday life in different cultures? Hidden versus overt 
violence. This session aims to view different forms of social and 
individual violence and the context of violence. Violence as punishment, 
as performance, space and aesthetics. This session aims to refine the 
quality of the statistics gathered on perpetrators as well as victims of 
violence. One of the objectives of this session is to realize proposals 
for solutions for this growing public health concern. Social 
consequences of the collapse of buildings and other man-made accidents 
will also be examined. Please find updated information as regards the 
meeting at the IFSSH website http://www.ifssh.net.
The International Forum for Social Sciences and Health (IFSSH) welcomes 
applications from scholars, administrators, researchers, interested 
parties, international agencies, national and international research 
institutions and students for participation in the 2005 World Congress 
“HEALTH CHALLENGES OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM”. The 2005 World Congress 
aims to realize a universal platform for reflections and forward-looking 
discussions in all important areas that fall under the health social 
science agenda. The world congress will host workshop sessions under the 
following themes: Accidents and disabilities; Adolescent health; 
Bioethics; Bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; Child health, 
development and child rights; Health consequences of war; Communicating 
health knowledge and behavior; Controversies of diet and nutrition; 
Developing economies, migration and emerging health issues; Ecohealth: 
climate change, health consequences of environmental deterioration and 
environmental policies; Ethnobotany and healing; Giving birth: new 
meanings, new statistics; Health and disease in world myths, scripts and 
literature; Health clubs and the new aesthetics of health; Health 
equity; Health social science research methodology; Health sector reform 
and health insurance; Health, medicine and colonialism; Human rights, 
HIV/AIDS and the new epidemics; Infectious diseases; Issues in rural 
health and disease; Life styles; Living with pain; Local traditions of 
healing and shamans; New challenges: smoking, addictions and eating 
disorders; Politics of pharmacueticals; Redefining old age; Reproductive 
health; Social history of health and disease; Social science education 
for health sciences; Sociology of dental health; Suicides and cross 
cultural issues in mental health; The economics of well being; The 
future of hospitals and patient care; The psychology of violence; 
Violence as a public health issue; and Social aspects and prevention of 
world blindness. Please find updated information as regards the meeting 
at the IFSSH website http://www.ifssh.net. We invite you to join this 
interdisciplinary gathering of the experiences and perspectives of 
social scientists and health specialists for a crucial assessment of the 
human condition at the onset of the new millennium.
Prof. Dr. Akile Gürsoy
IFSSH Secretary General
Head, Department of Anthropology
Yeditepe University
Congress Correspondence:
2005 IFSSH Congress Center
Department of Anthropology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Yeditepe University
Kay?s,dag(?,34755 Istanbul TÜRKI.YE
Tel: (+ 90) 216-578 07 27)
Fax: (+ 90) 216-578 08 99)
E-mail: ifssh.2005@yeditepe.edu.tr
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