While the question of violence and health is a complex one, it opens the door for interdisciplinary collaboration and multi professional efforts. Although this article does not intend to provide any definitive responses, it does endeavor to critique viewpoints that attribute an absolute meaning to the term 'violence'. It warns that this health-care sector runs the epistemological and pratical risk of falling into reductionism when it addresses violence as if it were an epidemic. Furthermore, this sector needs to collaborate with other sectors and wth civil societyu. More than offering answers, the article raises questions within the framework of an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the social sciences, epidemology and psychology.
violence and health; interdisciplinary studies; external causes