mapeh health

• unintentional injury

  can be defined as "any injury that is not caused on purpose or with intention to harm”
• Intentional injury - are injuries resulting trom violence. It can be divided into two: self-inflicted.
• self inflicted injuries - suicide and parasuicide
• parasuicide - A suicide attempt in which a person does not intend to die
• suicide - The intentional taking of one’s own life
• 700,000 people die by suicide each year
• India and singapore, have relatively low suicide rates
• Lesotho or guyana, suffer from high suicide rates
• protective factors - conditions or attributes in individuals, families, and communities that promote the health and well-being of a person.
• Risk Factors - are characteristics or conditions that increase the chance of a person may try to take their life.
• 404 young students took thier own life
• 2,147 others attempt suicide during academic year 2021-2022
• Male-to-female suicide fatality ratio of 3.3:1
• • higher Incidence of non-fatal suicide attempts among women, especially in the 15 to 24 age group
• Kinds of bullying - physical, verbal, social, cyber.
• stalking - A pattern of behaviour that makes you feel afraid, nervous, harrassed, or in danger.
• Extortion - is the act of using force or threats to force people to hand over money, properties or favours
• Domestic violence - the act that include physical assault
• characteristic of family - domestic violence
• Characteristics of peers - bullying, stalking, extortion
• Bullying - is unwanted, agressive behaviour.
• characteristics from the other groups of intentional injuries - gang, fraternity, kidnapping and abduction, terrorism.
• Gang - street-based group of young people engage in a range of criminal activity and violence.
• Fraternity - group of people with similar backgrounds, occupations, interests of taste.
• Kidnapping - taking away or forcefully moving a person against his/her will.
• Terrorism - use of violence for political goals and putting the public in fear.
• Verbal abuse - form of cruelty that involves the use of words.
• Characteristics of sexual, verbal abuse and harassment - incest, molestation, rape.
• Incest - sexual contact between persons who are so closely related to someone.
• Molestation - sexual abuse of a person by an adult for sexual pleasure or profit.
• Rape - is forced sexual intercourse.
• self-Inflicted - when a person harms himself/herself on a purpose
• Assault - when a person harm other on a purpose