title: Conceptualizing violence for health and medical geography.
abstract: Despite the fact that violence is a major threat to public health, the term itself is rarely considered as a phenomenon unto itself, and rarely figures explicitly in work by health and medical geographers. In response, I propose a definitionally and conceptually more robust approach to violence using a tripartite frame (interpersonal violence, structural violence, mass intentional violence) and suggest critical interventions through which to apply this more explicit and conceptually more robust approach: violence and embodiment via substance abuse in health geography, and structural violence via mental illness in medical geography.
authors.affiliation: School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales CF10 3WA, UK. Electronic address: DeVerteuilG@cardiff.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Geoffrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: DeVerteuil
mesh_terms: D062306:Geography, Medical; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D008603:Mental Health; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011634:Public Health; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Health geography; Medical geography; Mental health; Public health; Substance abuse; Violence