Health

• Unintentional injury


  Any injury that is not caused on purpose or with intention to harm
• Intentional injuries


  Injuries resulting from violence
• Types of intentional injuries

  • Self-inflicted
  • Assault
• Self-inflicted intentional injuries

  • Suicide
  • Parasuicide
• Types of assault


  • Within the family (domestic violence)
  • By peers (bullying, stalking, extortion)
  • By other groups (gang and youth violence, illegal fraternity-related violence, kidnapping and abduction, acts of terror)
  • Sexual victimization and other forms of abuse and harassment (verbal abuse, incest, molestation, rape)
• Domestic violence


  When one or more members of the family harms or abuses another family member
• Bullying


  Unwanted, aggressive behavior that is repeated, or can be repeated, over time
• Stalking


  A pattern of behavior that makes you feel afraid, nervous, harassed, or in danger
• Extortion


  The act of using force or threats to force people to hand over their money or properties, on favors
• Gang


  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


  A group of people with similar backgrounds, occupations, interests, or tastes, represented by Greek letters on campuses and universities
• Abduction


  The use of deceit or force in order to take a person or a child away from their home or relatives
• Acts of terror/terrorism


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


  A form of cruelty that involves the use of words
• Incest


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


  The sexual abuse of a person (whether a child or adult) by an adult for sexual pleasure or for profit
• Rape


  Forced sexual intercourse, including vaginal, anal, or oral penetration
• Framework of Intentional Injury

  1. Suicide

  2. Parasuicide

  3. Family (Domestic Violence)

  4. Peers (Bullying, Stalking, Extortion)

  5. Other Groups (Gang and Youth Violence, Illegal Fraternity, Kidnapping and Abduction, Acts of Terrorism)

  6. Sexual Abuse (Incest, Molestation, Verbal Abuse, Rape)
• Bullying is common in schools
• Rape can only happen to females
• Accidents are considered intentional injuries
• Intentional injuries are injuries resulting from violence
• Nothing can stop a person if s/he is determined to commit suicide
• A fraternity is a group of people with different backgrounds, occupations, interests, or tastes
• Young people who regard themselves and may be seen by others as a group that engages in a range of criminal activity and violence
• Sexual victimization and other forms of abuse and harassment may be committed by the family, peers or other people
• In abduction, the victim usually knows or has some sort of relation with the abductor
• Incest takes the form of a younger family member having sexual relations or sexually abusing a child or an adolescent