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Health professionals have a responsibility to become informed and raise community awareness about the nature of bullying and its link to serious health risks. The term "bullying" refers to a group of aggressive behaviors to which one person is exposed repeatedly and over time by one or more others. Bullying encompasses physical aggression (hitting, pushing, punching, or kicking); verbal harassment (threatening, teasing, name calling, or making faces or dirty gestures); and indirect or relational mistreatment (ignoring someone or excluding him or her on purpose). Daring a person to perform a dangerous, illegal, or inappropriate action under the threat of losing approval among the members of a group is also considered a form of bullying. What is understood as bullying varies according to human developmental stages and cultures.
Jorge C. Srabstein (Sun,) studied this question.