[Sheree Bekker] In this blog post, physiotherapist Tracy Blake, shares some key insights from both her injury prevention research and her experiences conducting research. In doing so, she shares some valuable considerations and implications. Tracy Blake is a physiotherapist with over 12 years experience in the sport, orthopaedics, and acute inpatient settings, including working with […]
Category: Research design
Quantifying the burden of injury in ‘data-poor’ setting; a local-need- driven approach?
…global estimation efforts have produced country-specific estimates, stimulated country data hunts that fed data into their machinery and, in a few ‘data-rich’ countries, facilitated full burden of disease and injury assessments too. However, to date, injury burden estimates for the vast majority of ‘data-poor’ countries come from indirect estimation in these global projects. […]
Censoring research
I am posting this for all Injury Prevention blog readers who are researchers or interested in research. I do so in part because John Langley is one of the pioneers in our field and was one of the Senior members of our editorial board from IP’s earliest days. But I also do so because the issue that prompted him […]
Focusing on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’
I draw attention to a recent post from The BMJ blog – Chris Baker: Child obesity in India? Tell me something I don’t know! as it struck me as relevant to the field of injury prevention. The BMJ blog post centres around the fact that only two qualitative studies have been published in the past 15 years on the […]