title: Violence in Mexico: A social or public health problem?
abstract: This article seeks to explain the importance of violence as a social phenomenon and public health, trying to envision this issue not only from a curative approach to health, but from the social determinants of health, such as economics, politics and the administration of justice. Here, the younger population lacks real opportunities with an absent State that fails to provide structure. These frameworks play a fundamental role in the manifestation of violence. Thus, the debate for addressing and resolving violence opens the way to new perspectives regarding social factors as part of a public health, which cannot be oblivious to the state of the collective. Thus, the analysis of this situation shows that we cannot keep overlooking the whole picture of the real problem in the social health of our world instead of focusing on its discordant parts.
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitario Amecameca de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Address: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Carretera Amecameca Ayapango, Colonia Centro, Estado de México, México. Email: capo730211@yahoo.es.
authors.forename: Donovan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Casas Patiño
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitario Amecameca de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Torres
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala.
authors.forename: Mario Rodolfo
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Salazar Morales
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D044483:Intestinal Polyposis; D008800:Mexico; D011634:Public Health; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D013683:Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic; D014754:Violence
keywords: homicide; public health; public policy; violence