Health

• Injury


  Hurt, damage, or loss sustained
• Intentional injury


  An act that damages or hurts: WRONG, violation of another's rights for which the law allows an action to recover damages
• Unintentional injury


  Injury that is not intentional
• Intentional injury news headlines

  • Estudyante nagpakamatay pagkatapos mabuli
  • Student raped and slain
  • Binatilyo patay, matapos tamaan ng kidlat
  • Riot ng mga gang, nauwi sa madugong wakas!
  • Bata nalunod sa baha!
• Suicide


  The intentional taking of one's own life
• Parasuicide


  A suicide attempt in which a person does not intend to die
• Signs of suicide/parasuicide


  • Talking about suicide or death
  • Writing farewell letters or giving away valuable things
  • Showing changes in behaviors, moods and feelings
• Domestic violence


  Physical assault, sexual abuse, and verbal abuse used by one person in a relationship to control the other
• Domestic violence behaviours


  • Name-calling or putdowns
  • Keeping a partner from contacting family/friends
  • Withholding money/allowance or denying financial support
  • Stopping a partner from getting/keeping a job
  • Actual or threatened physical harm
  • Sexual assault
  • Stalking
  • Intimidation
• Republic Act 9262 - Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004
• Bullying


  Unwanted, aggressive behaviour that is repeated, or can be repeated, over time
• Types of bullying


  • Verbal bullying
  • Social bullying
  • Physical bullying
  • Cyber bullying
• Republic Act No. 10627 or the Anti Bullying Act of 2013 addresses bullying
• Stalking


  A pattern of behaviour that makes you feel afraid, nervous, harassed, or in danger. It is someone repeatedly contacting you, following you, sending you things, and talking to you, even when you don't want them to.
• House Bill 5064 or the proposed Anti-Stalking Act of the Philippines defines stalker
• Extortion


  The act of using force or threats to force people to hand over their money or properties, or favours
• How to avoid intentional injuries

  • Suicide
  • Domestic violence
  • Bullying
  • Stalking
  • Extortion
• Other types of intentional injury

  • Gang and youth violence
  • Illegal fraternity-related violence
  • Kidnapping and abduction
  • Acts of terror
  • Verbal abuse
  • Sexual abuse
• Gang violence


  A relatively tough, mostly street-based group of young people who regard themselves and may be seen by others as a group that engages in a range of criminal activity and violence
• Fraternity violence


  Violence related to illegal fraternities
• Kidnapping and abduction


  Taking away or forcefully moving a person against his/her will and holding him/her in unjust captivity
• Acts of terror


  The use of violence for political goals and putting the public or a great number of people in fear
• Types of terrorism


  • State terrorism
  • Bioterrorism
  • Cyberterrorism
  • Ecoterrorism
  • Nuclear terrorism
  • Narcoterrorism
• Verbal abuse


  A form of cruelty that involves the use of words, including hurtful and usually attacks on the nature and abilities of the person
• Characteristics of verbal abuse

  • May be obviously angry
  • Controlling, even judgemental comments may be voiced in a very sincere and concerned way
  • Dangerous, causes a gradual fading of the self-confidence of persons without them realizing it
  • Fickle, a person is stunned, shocked and thrown off balance
  • Usually worsens, increase of strength, regularity, and assortment
• Incest


  Sexual contact between persons who are so closely related that a marriage between them is considered illegal
• Sexual abuse


  The sexual abuse of a person by an adult for sexual pleasure or for profit
• Forms of sexual abuse

  • Fondling
  • Mutual masturbation
  • Sodomy
  • Coitus
  • Child pornography
  • Child prostitution
• Rape


  Forced sexual intercourse, including vaginal, anal or oral penetration, where one or both people are not old enough to consent, or one of them does not have the capacity to consent, or one of them did not agree to take part