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 […]
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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 […]
“Drive Your Bike, Don’t Just Ride It”
Last week, I wrote a short blog highlighting a publication in this month’s issue of Injury Prevention which stressed the need to gather “better” data as a step towards improving future bicycle safety endeavors. This week, I am absolutely delighted to introduce a guest blog by someone who is equally passionate and enthusiastic about data […]
Children in virtual traffic testing situations – can we approximate real traffic situations?
Young children are developmentally very bad at traffic safety. This was early demonstrated by Swedish researcher Stina Sandels in the 1960’s. In her groundbreaking studies where she studied children’s behaviour in traffic situations, she came to the conclusion that children under the age of 12 are developmentally unable to handle traffic in a safe way. […]
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 […]
Step 1 of improving bicycle safety: gather data better!
The month of August is the unofficial, “Blog about Road/Bicycle/Pedestrian Safety!” month here at IP BMJ Blog. Part of that is due to the August 2015 issue of Injury Prevention, which features several publications regarding the aforementioned topics. One of them being this paper by Lusk, Asgarazdeh, and Farvid, looking at how bicycle-crash-scene data is being reported and how […]
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 […]
Injury prevention: the new performance enhancing?
Many people think of injury prevention as a purely medical endeavor: a method for keeping patients, athletes and teams healthy. And whilst this is certainly part of it, there are many other important aspects to consider! For example, if a medical team can keep your athletes on the field, injury-free, that gives you a huge performance advantage. […]