According to WHO Global Burden of Disease data, in 2002 over 700,000 children under the age of 15 were killed due to injuries suffered in violence. There is also high morbidity associated with childhood injuries: for every injured child who dies, there are several thousand children who live on with varying degrees of disability. A large proportion of these injuries (for example, falls, burns, drowning) occur either at home or in leisure environments.

The study has suggested community policing, improving emergency response and trauma care, capturing illegal arms market, establishing jobs for chronically unemployed, reducing income inequality, change cultural norms that support violence as some ways of turning around the situation.

Appropriate services for victims of non-fatal injuries can prevent future fatalities, reduce the amount of short-term and long-term disability, and help those affected to cope with the impact of the injury event on their lives, it further points out.