CPH 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Elder Abuse, Scopus, Moral Disengagement
22 Mar 2017
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Physical health problems: nursing, medicine (primary and emergency med), dentistry. Social, relationship, & educational issues: veterinary, teachers, 1st responders. Monetary costs: educational and job attainment; everyone is affected. Respondents may not recall, be willing to disclose, or might not perceive experiences as abusive. Abused and abusive adolescents (sibling violence, adolescent-parent violence, elder abuse) Adulthood (campus sexual misconduct, domestic/ intimate partner violence, elder abuse) Not about individual patients: extends care to entire populations. Measurement starts with a conceptualizing the problem/condition/behavior or disease that is the focus of prevention efforts. Violence is viewed as taking for non-mutually exclusive forms: physical, sexual, psychological, and neglect, which means abrogation of obligations to nurture. The public health typology of interpersonal violence has two main branches: intimate violence and community violence. Includes violence in conflict areas intentionally perpetrated on noncombatant individuals. Within the family, perpetrators and victims may be children, partners, or elders.
