Introduction
Violence against children and women is
an important issue to health and human right.
Impacts from both physical and psychological
violence will remain to affect their whole life.
Particular among the children, the impacts of
violence will remain throughout their life span
and will also affect to all aspects of their
development until they grown up or even when
they become old1. The violence against children
and women is one component of domestic
violence. The domestic violence includes child
abuse, spousal violence and elderly abuse. Types
of family violence can be classified as physical
violence, sexual violence, psychological violence
and economic exploitation. Some of the violence
against children and women is lead to
community violence.2,3 Violence prevention is
the process to eliminate or reduce the underlying
risk factors and shore up protective factors or
reduces the recurrence of further violence and
its ill effects. Violence is a problem affected
by multiple causes. The effective violence
prevention programs should compose of
multilevel of development and multi-sectoral
approach among all stakeholders in the society.
In addition, it should be linked to different
levels of prevention. This consists of individual
level, interpersonal relationship, community
involvement and social structure based on an
ecological model of violence to implement in
order to reduce risk factors, to promote
protective factors that will lead to declining
of violence against children and women in society3