Earlier today I received an email from the journal’s founding associate editor, Mike Hayes, informing me that Hugh Jackson had died. He was well into his nineties but when I last spoke to him a few months ago he was lucid and well informed. When the journal began I wanted Honorary Editors who had been […]
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Preventing injury by attending to the injured
I came across a paper summarising the efforts of an osteoporotic fracture liaison service over the period of one year (July 2008-June 2009) which I thought may be of interest to readers of the Injury Prevention blog. Now at first glance this may seem more like injury treatment, rather than injury prevention, however as Vaile, Sullivan, Connor, […]
Non-reporting: An additional challenge for injury prevention
We all know that injury prevention research and intervention is frequently at the beck and call of funding by governments and policy-makers, industry and research councils. Funding decisions are often informed by statistics, such as prevalence and incidence, therefore it is vital that injury prevention researchers and practitioners have access to – and report – the most complete […]
Improving reporting in injury prevention research
A recent Editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine by O’Brien, Donaldson, Barbery, and Finch addresses an important element in injury prevention research: the completeness of the intervention reporting. The RE-AIM framework can be used as a tool to facilitate the translation of research into practice. It can be used from the earliest phases […]
Floods and injury prevention: Using available tools to understand and minimise risks
I found the article I am chatting about today as particularly interesting, and not just because I lived through the event under examination. January 2011 saw 99% of my home state of Queensland, Australia, declared a disaster zone. We had survived weeks of intense rain across much of the state, and the sodden ground meant floodwaters […]
Conferences and collaborations
Last week I had the privilege of attending and presenting at two conferences in Brisbane, the capital of my home state of Queensland, Australia. The 20th conference for the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety was followed by the Road Safety, Research, Policing and Education Conference 2013. In case you had not previously considered attending conferences, […]
Injury prevention and children of adults diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease
Regular readers of the Injury Prevention blog will know that I frequently share articles, reports and other information that changes the way I perceived and/or understood various mechanisms of injury and their broader impact. Hopefully sharing my own experiences is useful to others, particularly if we share an epiphany-of-sorts. Today’s post is also enlightening for […]
Cannabis safer than alcohol for drivers (?)
Someone brought to my attention a link to a site with the intriguing name “The Daily Chronic’. It appears to be a pro-cannabis site. They came across a paper in Accid Analysis and Prevention by a pot advocate but which seems to show that marijuana is safer for drivers than alcohol. Even if confirmed, I […]
Injury Prevention and Alzheimer’s Disease
A fascinating article in the August edition of Prevention Science has me looking at Alzheimer’s Disease in a whole different way. Rather than me seeing it as an outcome, a disease which today afflicts tens of millions of people around the world, I now see it as a brain injury which to some extent can be prevented. […]
Upcoming twitter discussion event
I received an email today from Duncan Vernon of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). On the 30th of July at 8.00pm BST (GMT+1), Duncan will be guest hosting a twitter discussion about an “Editor’s choice” article recently published in Injury Prevention. Public health professionals from a variety of backgrounds regularly participate in […]