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.
