Using injury data for violence prevention

Core competencies for injury and violence prevention.

Efforts to reduce the burden of injury and violence require a workforce that is knowledgeable and skilled in prevention. However, there has been no systematic process to ensure that professionals possess the necessary competencies. To address this deficiency, we developed a set of core competencies for public health practitioners in injury and violence prevention programs. The core competencies...

JIVR: a new frontier for global injury and violence prevention

elcome to the JIVR! On behalf of Editorial Team/Board, we are delighted to inform you that after three years of preparation and hard work the journal entitled "Journal of Injury and Violence Research" (JIVR) is established. The driving force behind the inception and evolution of JIVR has been to provide an interdisciplinary forum for publishing definitive peer reviewed articles devoted to the c...

FEATURED PROGRAMME Injury prevention in the information age: the Injury and Violence Prevention Library

Injury control is multidisciplinary, involving disparate fields whose body of knowledge is rarely found in a single repository. As shown in fig 1, there are at least 11 disciplines whose areas of inquiry have direct bearing upon some aspect of injury and violence prevention. Practitioners within these disciplines circulate information through formal channels (academic and non-academic). Informa...

Injury prevention in the information age: the injury and violence prevention library.

Injury control is multidisciplinary, involving disparate fields whose body of knowledge is rarely found in a single repository. As shown in fig 1, there are at least 11 disciplines whose areas of inquiry have direct bearing upon some aspect of injury and violence prevention. Practitioners within these disciplines circulate information through formal channels (academic and non-academic). Informa...

Building global commitment for violence prevention Violence Prevention Alliance