The definition includes interpersonal violence, suicidal behavior and armed conflict. It also covers a whole range of acts that go beyond physical violence, including threats and intimidation.
In addition to death and trauma, it encompasses the multiplicity of often less obvious consequences of violent behavior, such as psychological damage and problems of emotional deprivation and development that compromise individual, family and community well-being.
This WHO definition is interesting because it clearly distinguishes three categories of violence: self-inflicted, interpersonal and collective.
However, this definition is limited to physical violence and its psychological and moral consequences, and does not include psychological and moral violence resulting from words, gestures, attitudes or institutional decisions without physical violence.