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The ambition of the EU co-funded project PHASE-IPV (2008-2010) was to strengthen the role of Public Health in providing a multidisciplinary framework for understanding the problem of interpersonal violence and in contributing to the development of adequate prevention strategies for Interpersonal Violence in EU.
In order to assess the magnitude of the burden of interpersonal violence, the collection of accurate information is essential. However, there is a wide variety of sources of information on the subject of violence and methodological issues, related to definitions and classification, case definition and development of proper indicators, data collection and sampling issues and data reporting and mapping issues. And, there are also problems related to the identification of risk factors and main determinants of violent behaviour and the circumstances of its occurrence.
Therefore the public health sector can play a vital role in violence prevention, by overcoming these deficiencies in information on the size and impact of the issue as well as by identifying and disseminating good practices in prevention.
The overall objective of the PHASE-IPV project was to analyse the situation in Europe and the current status in order to contribute in tackling interpersonal violence and facilitate the development of adequate prevention strategies.

The specific objectives are to map interpersonal violence (with a focus on the following areas: child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner violence and elder abuse) in Europe in terms of size and impact of the problem, information deficiencies and methodological problems through:

• elaborating fact sheets on interpersonal violence in EU+ and producing report and on currently available public health information on interpersonal violence, identify gaps and recommend improvements; and by
• collecting and disclosing systematically information on PH-initiated violence prevention interventions and strategies currently undertaken by member states (EU+) and the success factors in implementing these interventions.