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• Injury


  Damage caused by accidents, falls, hits, weapons, and more
• Physical trauma


  Damage to the body caused by external force
• Classifications of injury


  • Intentional Injury
  • Unintentional injury
• Intentional injuries


  Occur with purposeful intent and include homicide, suicide, domestic violence, sexual assault, bias related violence and firearms
• Unintentional injuries


  Occur without purposeful intent, such as burns, drowning, falls, poisoning and road traffic accidents leading cause of death and disability
• Types of intentional injuries


  • Self-inflicted
  • Assault
• Self-inflicted injuries


  When a person harms himself/herself on purpose
• Assault


  When person/persons harm another on purpose
• Examples of self-inflicted injuries


  • Suicide
  • Parasuicide
• Domestic violence


  Violence committed within the family or within other types of relationships where people live together, like spouse abuse, siblings hurting each other, or parents/maltreating their children
• Acts included in domestic violence

  • Name-calling or putdowns
  • Keeping a partner from contacting his/her family friend
  • Withholding money/allowance or denying financial support
  • Stopping a partner from getting or keeping a job
  • Actual or threatened physical harm
  • Sexual assault
  • Stalking
  • Intimidation