CTHPP Group Activity 3.

GROUP ACTIVITY

1. Identify some health inequalities associated with knife crime and youth
violence.
2. Discuss within your groups the behavioral risk factors that may be
associated with youth violence and particularly knife crime (use the
ecological framework on slide 13 and the rainbow model on slide 21).
3. Make a list of your top three risk factors to present back to the class with
reference to your evidence.

Dahlgren and Whitehead’s model

Page 163 of core textbook

Dahlgren and Whitehead’s model (below) highlights several of the main factors
determining population health. The central feature of the model is several fixed
determinants of health such as age, sex and genetics. These are all considered in
chapter 8 of the core text book, which critically examines individual
characteristics as determinants of health. Consider:
 individual behaviour,
 individual characteristics, including developmental factors such as foetal
experiences and age,
 constitutional factors such as genetic inheritance,
 and social constructs such as gender (how concepts of femininity and
masculinity influence health).

[Warwick-Booth, Louise/Cross, Ruth/Lowcock, Diane. Contemporary Health

Studies]
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The ecological framework of violence prevention

CTHPP Group Activity 3.1