From Tragedy To Opportunity: Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs May Address Root-Cause Health Disparities for Violent Traumatic Injury Patients
Violence is a growing public health issue that disproportionately affects low-income and racialized communities across North America. While trauma centers appropriately respond to acute violent injuries, many patients are discharged back into the same environments that put them at risk. Hospital-bas...
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| description | Violence is a growing public health issue that disproportionately affects low-income and racialized communities across North America. While trauma centers appropriately respond to acute violent injuries, many patients are discharged back into the same environments that put them at risk. Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs (HVIPs) offer opportunities for trauma care to address the upstream root causes of violence. These programs engage patients during critical “teachable moments,” connecting them to staff with lived experience, along with social workers and community partners, providing personalized support such as mental health care, education, employment, and housing services. In Canada, several initiatives in Toronto and Winnipeg are examples of HVIPs assisting with reduction of repeat injury by intervening on root causes. The early results show reductions in re-injury, improved engagement in school, lower justice system involvement, and potential healthcare cost savings. This commentary explores Canadian HVIPs as a model for addressing health disparities linked to violence and considers how similar approaches can be adapted in other healthcare settings to better serve communities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3cb9e4970fce40328e1aa65cdbd4678a2025-08-20T04:02:28ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Primary Care & Community Health2150-13272025-07-011610.1177/21501319251356386From Tragedy To Opportunity: Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs May Address Root-Cause Health Disparities for Violent Traumatic Injury PatientsKhadija Brouillette0Joseph Gebru1Armaan K Malhotra2Tyler McKechnie3Husain Shakil4Joseph Tropiano5Adom Bondzi-Simpson6McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaBrock University, St. Catharines, ON, CanadaUniversity of Toronto, ON, CanadaMcMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CanadaUniversity of Toronto, ON, CanadaUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, CanadaUniversity of Toronto, ON, CanadaViolence is a growing public health issue that disproportionately affects low-income and racialized communities across North America. While trauma centers appropriately respond to acute violent injuries, many patients are discharged back into the same environments that put them at risk. Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs (HVIPs) offer opportunities for trauma care to address the upstream root causes of violence. These programs engage patients during critical “teachable moments,” connecting them to staff with lived experience, along with social workers and community partners, providing personalized support such as mental health care, education, employment, and housing services. In Canada, several initiatives in Toronto and Winnipeg are examples of HVIPs assisting with reduction of repeat injury by intervening on root causes. The early results show reductions in re-injury, improved engagement in school, lower justice system involvement, and potential healthcare cost savings. This commentary explores Canadian HVIPs as a model for addressing health disparities linked to violence and considers how similar approaches can be adapted in other healthcare settings to better serve communities.https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319251356386 |
| spellingShingle | Khadija Brouillette Joseph Gebru Armaan K Malhotra Tyler McKechnie Husain Shakil Joseph Tropiano Adom Bondzi-Simpson From Tragedy To Opportunity: Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs May Address Root-Cause Health Disparities for Violent Traumatic Injury Patients Journal of Primary Care & Community Health |
| title | From Tragedy To Opportunity: Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs May Address Root-Cause Health Disparities for Violent Traumatic Injury Patients |
| title_full | From Tragedy To Opportunity: Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs May Address Root-Cause Health Disparities for Violent Traumatic Injury Patients |
| title_fullStr | From Tragedy To Opportunity: Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs May Address Root-Cause Health Disparities for Violent Traumatic Injury Patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Tragedy To Opportunity: Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs May Address Root-Cause Health Disparities for Violent Traumatic Injury Patients |
| title_short | From Tragedy To Opportunity: Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs May Address Root-Cause Health Disparities for Violent Traumatic Injury Patients |
| title_sort | from tragedy to opportunity hospital based violence intervention programs may address root cause health disparities for violent traumatic injury patients |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319251356386 |
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