health

• Injuries


  • Can be caused by accidents or acts of violence
  • May occur at home, work, or play
  • Can be due to impact from blunt objects or from objects that penetrate the body
• TWO CLASSIFICATIONS OF INJURY

  • Intentional Injury
  • Unintentional Injury
• Intentional Injuries


  • Include self-inflicted and interpersonal acts of violence intended to cause harm. The term "intentional" is used to refer to injuries resulting from purposeful human action, whether directed at oneself or others
• Unintentional Injury


  Refers to injuries that are unplanned and typically preventable when proper safety precautions are followed
• Parasuicide


  • Risky behaviors such as speeding or disregarding traffic laws, or abusing drugs, when the person shows total disregard for whether the actions might result in his or her death. A supposed suicide attempt that was not intended to succeed.
• Suicide - The act of intentionally killing oneself, usually by taking one's own life.
• SELF-INFLICTED –Suicide -Parasuicide
• ASSAULT -physical attack -when a person harm another on purpose
• Domestic Violence - pattern of abusive and intimidating behavior used by one person to control the other. the domestic setting is at home.
• Bullying - undesired aggressive behavior involving a real or perceived superiority over others.
• Types of bullying - verbal, social, physical, cyber.
• Verbal Bullying - using words to hurt someone else.
• Social Bullying - excluding people from groups, spreading rumors about them, embarrassing them in public.
• Physical Bullying - hitting, kicking, pushing, spitting, tripping, pinching, etc.
• Cyber bullying - use of electronic device to bully someone.
• Gang and Youth Violence - Gang members mostly involved in serious youth violence like extortion, theft, and robbery, and in selling drugs causing injuries to their victims.
• Illegal fraternity - a group with common purpose or interest. it includes hazing.
• Sexual abuse - an unwanted non-consensual sexual activity where the abuser intentionally uses force, threats, and takes advantage of the victim.
• Forms of sexual abuse - Molestation, rape, and incest.
• Molestation - sexual abuse of an adult to a person, for sexual pleasure or profit.
• Rape - sexual penetration without consent or when the victim is not capable of giving consent.
• Incest - sexual relation between close relatives.
• Kidnapping - The act of taking a person against their will, usually for ransom.
• Abduction - when deceit or force is used in order to take someone from their home or relatives.
• Acts of Terror - a terrorist attack is an act of violence intended to intimidate or coerce a population into submission