BACKGROUND Injuries, one of the leading public health problems in an otherwise healthy military population, affect operational readiness, increase healthcare costs, and result in disabilities and fatalities. This paper describes a systematic, data-driven, injury prevention-decision making process to rank potential injury prevention targets. METHODS Medical surveillance and safety report data ...

Creating a strong future for injury control in the USA requires adequate support for research, improved advocacy for injury control legislation and regulation, and effective translation of research into practice. Yet, none of these priorities can be pursued without a qualified injury prevention workforce. Scientific advancement in any field requires well-trained scholars who can apply rigorous ...

Despite the known benefits of supportive work environments for promoting patient quality and safety healthcare worker retention, there is no clear mandate improving within Learning Health Systems (LHS) nor an LHS wellness competency. Striking rises in burnout levels among workers provide urgency this topic. Methods We brought three experts on moral injury, prevention, ethics to a recurring, int...

Beginnings The Injury Prevention Research (IPRU) was founded in 1990, as the result of a successful bid to establish New Zealand’s first centre for injury prevention research. The need for such a centre was identified in a review of research on unintentional injury prepared for the then Medical Research Council of New Zealand. The authors of that review argued that an analysis of national data ...

Timely, accurate and reliable injury statistics are an important part of the public health approach to injury prevention. Unreliable statistics thwart efforts to monitor and respond to injury prevention and to assess the effectiveness of prevention initiatives. While most South Africans would concur that we have high incidences of injury and violence, official statistics do not explain the full...

Child and youth injury prevention research in Canada has lagged behind other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development nations, despite existing surveillance systems and longitudinal data. A critical need to improve access to the available data, as well as need to tailor its display and interpretation, was identified by injury prevention stakeholders involved in research, policy, a...

Community based injury prevention work has become a widely accepted strategy among safety promotion specialists. Hundreds of community based injury prevention programs have been implemented since the mid-1970s, but relatively few have been evaluated rigorously, resulting in a lack of consensus regarding the effectiveness of this approach. This study sought to identify key components that contri...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the motor vehicle injury prevention behaviors reported by the 12th-grade cohort of the Pinellas County Omnibus Study for years 2001-2002, compare these findings to those reported by parents in 1991-1992, and discuss the role of public health and injury prevention in these efforts. The questions in 2001-2002 were modeled after the Youth Risk Behavior Surv...