EUPHA section on injury prevention and safety promotion

The Childhood Injury Prevention and Promotion of Safety Programme (CHIPPS).

Aim The CHIPPS Programme is based in the section of Community Child Health, Department of Child Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The aim of this programme is to develop the scientific basis of child injury prevention and provide England with a centre of excellence in academic and applied research in the field. It sets out to develop a sound information base in the seven health distric...

The translation of sports injury prevention and safety promotion knowledge: insights from key intermediary organisations

BACKGROUND A recognised research-to-practice gap exists in the health research field of sports injury prevention and safety promotion. There is a need for improved insight into increasing the relevancy, accessibility and legitimacy of injury prevention and safety promotion research knowledge for sport settings. The role of key organisations as intermediaries in the process of health knowledge t...

Informatic Based Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Local community

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion.

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713734346 Risk assessment for loaderand dozer-related fatal incidents in U.S. mining Zainalabidin Md-Nor a; Vladislav Kecojevic a; Dragan Komljenovic b; William Groves a a The Pennsylvania State Univers...

Safety education of pedestrians for injury prevention.

BACKGROUND Each year about one million people die and about 10 million are seriously injured on the world's roads. Educational measures to teach pedestrians how to cope with the traffic environment are considered to be an essential component of any prevention strategy, and pedestrian education has been recommended in many countries. However, as resources available for road safety are limited, a...