I n October 2003, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and its co-sponsors, the National Safety Council, the American Society of Safety Engineers and Liberty Mutual Center for Safety Research, hosted the Third National Occupational Injury Research Symposium—NOIRS 2003. NOIRS 2003 brought together the foremost researchers in occupational injury to present their late...

BACKGROUND We analyzed population-based injury trends and the association between injury and alcohol consumption patterns in Thailand, a middle-income country undergoing rapid social change. METHODS A nationwide cohort of 42 785 Thai adult Open University students, who were aged 15 to 87 years at enrolment, participated in cross-sectional assessments at baseline (2005) and 8 years later (2013...

OBJECTIVE To understand the epidemiology of non-fatal injuries among adults aged 65 years and older in China. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey (the Fourth National Health Services Survey of China). PARTICIPANTS Urban and rural residents aged 65 years and older from 56,400 households in China. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The incidence rate was calculated as the number of persons injured in the prev...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the effect of including both principal and secondary injuries in the calculation of national estimates of non-fatal motor vehicle-related injury, using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP). METHODS The setting was a stratified sample of 15 US hospital emergency departments selected among 50 NEISS-AIP hospitals which agreed ...

Highlights Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and General Estimates System (GES) show that, in 2011, about 3 percent of fatal crashes, 1.7 percent of injury crashes, and 2 percent of property-damage-only (PDO) crashes involved single-unit trucks (SUTs). Crashes involving SUTs killed 1,064 people and injured about 38,000 people. Additionally, about 87,000 SUTs were involved ...