VIOLENCE AND HEALTH-EFFECTS - THEORETIC A NALYSIS AND PROBLEM MAGNITUDE IN MEXICO

Our understanding of violence gains from perspectives contributed by s everal different disciplines. The differences among goals and points o f view are often reflected in their vocabularies and interfere in to i ntegrate the advances by each of them. Three big disciplines have stud ie violence, those are: Social Sciences, Criminal Justice and most rec entlly Public Health. This paper discusses the theoric perspectives by discipline and try to dimensionate the violence problem measured by m ortality and morbidity by intentional injuries in Mexico.