Kudos to Royal Life Saving for releasing both an infographic and video along with their National Drowning Report 2015, making the content more accessible and easier to share. The video – linking data, story, and prevention measures – is an excellent example of a clear, simple way of disseminating research findings. This important information, in […]
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Botswana reflections: on learning the ABCs
I am currently in Botswana: a landlocked southern-African country of roughly two million people. I grew up here, and it is a place that I consider one of the most beautiful in the world (particularly the Okavango Delta – a bucket list destination for wildlife). The country and its people were beautifully portrayed in this music […]
Can we utilise coaching science to improve injury prevention practices?
Basketball Team by BoB McElroy licenced under CC BY 2.0 This week I invited Dr Scott Talpey (follow him on Twitter @s_talps), a research fellow at the Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention, to share his insights on sports coaching science and injury prevention – given that a couple of previous Injury […]
Dying en route to safety – the mortality rates of refugees to Europe
Refugees are often barred from conventional modes of transport, and thus reduced to using unsafe means of travel. But people who are running away from horrible risks are willing to take quite extreme risks. Or as stated by the somalian-british poet Warsan Shire “you have to understand that no one puts their children in a […]
Back to basics: On social media and injury prevention
I recently attended the inaugral Mayo Clinic Social Media and Healthcare Summit, held in Brisbane, Australia. Billed to excite, educate and demonstrate the power of social media to healthcare providers – no matter where they work or what they do – this promised to be an innovative few days. I have already blogged about this Summit […]
Dissemination and implementation of best practice in falls prevention across Europe
As injury prevention researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers, we are all aware that falls are an important public health issue. Today I wanted to profile a novel approach to preventing falls. Dr Helen Hawley-Hague of the University of Manchester is the Scientific Coordinator of ProFouND, the Prevention of Falls Network for Dissemination, and she has shared with […]
Home safety and the prevention of falls
The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Safety Centre has created a new online resource to tackle the number one cause of injury to children in Victoria, Australia – falls. Targeting parents of children aged from birth to 14 years old, the site details simple steps parents and caregivers can take to prevent common injuries by age […]
Snow safety in Australia: Perceptions from a well-travelled snow sport injury researcher
This week I have the pleasure of sharing the views of one of my colleagues here at the Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (follow us on Twitter @ACRISPFedUni). Matthew Shumack (follow him on Twitter @snowboardPhD) is researching snow sports injury prevention (cue: research envy). A cursory keyword search in Injury Prevention […]
Treating firearm violence like a contagious disease
Following up on a previous post by aelkhatib. When I first heard about the 1996 amendment prohibiting the Center for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting research on firearm violence prevention I was very surprised. I could not believe that there was a legal mechanism that would prevent researchers from studying the causes of something […]
Concern for prehospital care/ambulance services
I spent last week travelling in Adjumani district (located in Northern Uganda) as part of an exercise in improving the quality of immunization data through support supervision and mentor-ship. This required us as a team to visit as many of the health facilities in the district as possible. Due to the limited sources of our […]