Prof. Dimitrinka Jordanova Peshevska attends World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in Bangkok

UACS faculty member Ass. Professor in Health Psychology and Counseling Dimitrinka Jordanova Peshevska, PhD, participated at the 13th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion 2018 – “Advancing injury and violence prevention towards Sustainable Development Goals”. She has presented research paper titled: “Risk Factors Predicting Dating Violence Victimization in Students from Middle and Late Adolescence”, and poster presentation titled: “Abuse and neglect in childhood associated with individual, relational, and contextual factors among adolescents”. Both abstracts have been published at the British Medical Journal – Injury Prevention supplement.

The Conference took place in Bangkok, Thailand, from 5-7 November 2018 hosted by Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, and co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO). The 13th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (Safety 2018) was dedicated to prevention of injuries and violence as a major public health burden across the globe, gathering together over 1000 of the world’s leading researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and activists to share information and experiences and to discuss solutions.