How prevention of violence in childhood builds healthier economies and smarter children in the Asia and Pacific region.
How prevention of violence in childhood builds healthier economies and smarter children in the Asia and Pacific region.
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DOI：
10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000188
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
8.1
通讯作者：
Blight S
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作者：
Fry D;Blight S
亚太地区预防暴力侵害儿童行为的投资将带来重要的社会和经济回报，有助于建设该地区的“认知资本”。对该地区的暴力负担研究进行了分析，以确定暴力的影响并证明这些回报。暴力是亚太地区许多儿童生活中的日常经历，与这种常见形式的暴力相关的有毒压力可能会永久影响正在发育的大脑的结构和化学成分。随着儿童长大成人，这可能会破坏学习并影响行为、社交和情感功能。鉴于该地区每年有数亿儿童受到暴力影响，其累积影响相当于每年数千亿美元的损失，约占亚太地区国内生产总值的 2%。预防暴力可以对健康和生产力产生积极影响，减少危机应对支出，改善儿童的发育和教育成果，并预防犯罪。可持续发展目标和关于有效预防战略的全球共识构成了结束暴力侵害儿童行为的强有力的新议程，各国政府可以采取关键步骤来加速行动。
Investments in preventing violence against children in the Asia and Pacific region will bring important social and economic returns that contribute to building the region's ‘cognitive capital’. An analysis of burden of violence research in the region is presented to identify the impacts of violence and to demonstrate these returns. Violence is an everyday experience in the lives of many children in the Asia–Pacific, and the toxic stress associated with such routine forms of violence may permanently impact the architecture and chemistry of the developing brain. This can undermine learning and affect behavioural, social and emotional functioning as children grow into adulthood. Given the hundreds of millions of children affected by violence in the region each year, its cumulative impact translates into the annual loss of hundreds of billions of dollars—or about 2% of gross domestic product of the Asia and Pacific region. Violence prevention can affect positively on health and productivity, reduce expenditure on crisis response, improve children's developmental and educational outcomes, and prevent crime. The sustainable development goals and the emerging global consensus on effective prevention strategies constitute a powerful new agenda to end violence against children, and there are critical steps that governments can take to accelerate action.