Surgeon General’s
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sad’ Bublic Health

Report

Leesburg, Virginia
October 27-29, 1985
Surgeon General's
Workshop on

Violence
and Public Health

Report

Sponsors

U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services: the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and
Mental Health Administration, Centers for
Disease Control, Health Resources and Ser-
vices Administration, and National Institutes
of Health of the U.S. Public Health Service
and the Administration on Children, Youth,
and Families and the Administration on De-
velopmental Disabilities of the Office of Hu-
man Development Services

U.S. Department of Justice: the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Leesburg, Virginia
October 27-29, 1985
 
 

he Health Resources

 
  

Published May 1986 by
and Servicés\Admiefiseration (HRSA)
U.S. Public Health Service
U.S. Departement of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

DHHS Publication No. HRS-D-MC_ 86-1
Contents

Plenary Session I
C. Everett Koop, MD .............. Pee tees beste bee evasesesuceeussse ss, 3
Surgeon General, USPHS

Plenary Sesssion II
Marvin E. Wolfgang, PhD ............00. 000. cc cecccccecceccucceeceee 9
Director, Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and
Criminal Law, University of Pennsylvania

William H. Foege, MD ..........0 000.0 coe cece ecco ccc cceccccceee. 19
Assistant Surgeon General and Special Assistant for
Policy Development, Centers for Disease Control

Plenary Session III
Karil S. Klingbeil, MSW, ACSW ......00....0. 000000000200 eee. 25
Assistant Administrator and Director of Social Work,
Harborview Medical Center, and Assistant Professor,
School of Social Work, University of Washington

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD ....0.. 000.0 cc cece cecccccccccccecccee ee 35
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University
School of Medicine, and Attending Physician,
Boston Youth Program

Anthony V. Bouza ......... 0.2... cc cece ccccec ccc eeeeueveseceseceeeces 44

Chief of Police, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Plenary Session IV
Recommendations of the Work Groups:

Assault and Homicide: Evaluation and Treatment.................... 49
Assault and Homicide: Prevention................0..0000000555.. 52
Child Abuse: Evaluation and Treatment .......................-...... 54
Child Abuse: Prevention ........0.0 000.0. cccccecc ccc ccccccccccceee 56
Child Sexual Abuse: Evaluation and Treatment ........-..+:ee sees ees 58

Child Sexual Abuse: Prevention.......---.-++ss-seeererectcnen 61
Elder Abuse: Evaluation and Treatment of Victims

and Prevention........2-c2ceeee eee ee tees 64
Rape and Sexual Assault: Evaluation and Treatment ........-.--+-+-- 66

Rape and Sexual Assault: Prevention ........20e0eeeeeeene renee 68
Spouse Abuse: Evaluation and Treatment ..........-.s0ee eee eer ene 71

Spouse Abuse: Prevention .......--+1e-ssseeereetrersseeesr ens 74

Plenary Session V
C. Everett Koop, MD .........:0::ceeeeerrerer er er eer n reese 79
Surgeon General, USPHS