This work analyses the proposals of prevention of violence against children and adolescents, which are explicity or implicity indicated on articles published in national journals. The main objectives of this analysis are to identify the state of the art concerning this thematic and to subsidize health politics. Forty-eight articles published between January 1990 and July 1997 were selected for the analysis of the bibliography. This study is based on quantitative and qualitative approaches. The results point out that domestic violence prevails among all the kinds of violence identified (25%); the literature review is the most used methodology (45.8%) and the area of the pediatrics concentrates the largest production (37.5%). This paper argues that the authors do not reduce the discussion to medicalization, in fact, they search for an understanding of the multicasuality of violence which does not reduce it to an individual issue. In addittion to that, they propose an interdisciplinary approach to prevention of violence.
Prevention of Violence; Child; Adolescent; Bibliographical Study
