France has achieved remarkable road safety results in the last decade. It almost halved its road fatalities from 2002 to 2005, and the decreasing trend has continued. Most of these reductions are attributed to rigorous speed control, particularly by automated cameras and the issuance of speed tickets. Drunk driving, however, remains a major problem as […]
Category: Implementation
What the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2010 says about causes of injury deaths.
Over the years, the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBDS) has provided an excellent resource to support advocacy for injury prevention research. The Lancet has recently published (Dec 14, 2012) findings from the latest GBDS funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The GBDS 2010 focused on comparing estimated mortality and morbidity trends between […]
Listen and learn from others to prevent injury
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Preventing injuries needs more than just researchers to develop and evaluate interventions. It also needs more than just professionals or practitioners to implement programs and safety measures. It needs both. The August 2012 46(10) issue of the British Journal of […]
Is it any wonder that concussion prevention is not working?
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) If any topic has to take the top prize for the most talked about sports injury issue globally in 2012, surely that has to be won by concussion, or head injury. Both scientific and public commentary has debated a range of prevention […]