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Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS): towards a global surveillance system
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS). The survey is a national, household survey that systematically measures the prevalence, nature and consequences of sexual, physical and emotional violence against children. DESIGN: This report provides information about the history, implementation, ethical protections, utility, results, limitations, and future directions of the VACS work. RESULTS: The study has been implemented in 11 countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, providing each of these countries with baseline data and momentum to address violence against children as a public health and human rights priority. These data are novel in each country, and VACS is well poised to contribute to an existing surveillance system or be used as the basis of a periodic surveillance system. CONCLUSIONS: Without ongoing surveillance to assess prevalence and the impact of policy, prevention and response programming, violence will likely continue to be overlooked as the linchpin public health crisis that it is, globally and in individual countries.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chiang, L. F., Kress, H., Sumner, S. A., Gleckel, J., Kawemama, P., & Gordon, R. N.
- Affiliations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (TZ)
- Together for Girls, c/o UNAIDS, Washington DC, USA
- Corresponding author
- Chiang, Laura F
- Venue
- Injury Prevention
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2016-04
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- Suppl 1
- Pages
- i17-i22
- ISSN
- 1353-8047 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-5785
- PMC
- PMC6158784
- OpenAlex
- W2339547998
- Cited by
- 118
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 7.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Injury Prevention (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (CC999999)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Child Abuse and Related Trauma
- Keywords
- violence against children, child sexual abuse, child physical abuse, childhood emotional abuse, violence surveillance, prevalence estimation, household surveys, disease surveillance, human rights, child protection policy
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Africa, Asia, Child, Child Abuse, Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Population Surveillance, Public Health, Violence, Global Health, Prevalence, Caribbean Region, Young Adult
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