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
Develop a theory of change to inform pathways that reduce violence and health inequalities and improve health outcomes
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
Generate an integrated dataset of violence and health using data from surveys and administrative sources
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
Develop a system-wide cost-benefit framework for violence and risk assessment tools
