Improving the measurement of violence to reduce its impact on health

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Our VISION

The Violence, Health, and Society (VISION) consortium is funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership. We are a collaboration of epidemiologists, economists, data scientists, criminologists, evaluation experts, psychiatrists and more from multiple universities. Our research brings data together from health and crime surveys, health services, police, solicitors, and third sector domestic and sexual violence specialist services. Together, over the course of our five-year project, we aim to improve the measurement of data on violence to influence policy and practice and reduce violence and the health inequalities that result.

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Realising our VISION

The VISION consortium has established fundamental baseline evidence on who uses and who experiences violence. This includes understanding prevalence, profiles, costs and locations; inequalities and intersections in exposure to violence (for example by age and disability); and investigations into the implications of using different definitions of violence, victim, perpetrator, relationship, and inequality.



Five overarching objectives guide VISION’s goal of preventing and reducing the harm caused by violence. We will:
Map theories of change in complex systems

Map theories of change in complex systems

Develop a theory of change to inform pathways that reduce violence and health inequalities and improve health outcomes

Improve the measurement of violence

Improve the measurement of violence

Develop a measurement framework to enable cross-discipline collaboration and to overcome fragmentation due to divergent measurement systems

Integrate data from multiple sources

Integrate data from multiple sources

Generate an integrated dataset of violence and health using data from surveys and administrative sources

Investigate connections and causal pathways

Investigate connections and causal pathways

Investigate links between violence, health, and society and test the theory of change

Review and refine data use applications, in particular cost-effectiveness

Review and refine data use applications, in particular cost-effectiveness

Develop a system-wide cost-benefit framework for violence and risk assessment tools

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Funding & Academic Partners

VISION is funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (Grant MR/V049879/1). The multi-funder initiative supports novel research into the primary prevention of non-communicable diseases to improve population health and reduce health inequalities.
UKPRP is funded by the British Heart Foundation, Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Health and Social Care Research and Development Division (Welsh Government), Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Natural Environment Research Council, Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland), the Health Foundation and Wellcome.
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Who VISION are

Events are an important communication and dissemination tool throughout the VISION project. In person seminars and workshops with our stakeholders and the wider public as well as webinars, the VISION annual conference every September are important knowledge exchange activities.