As an avid cyclist myself, I was fascinated by a recent article in the New York Times titled, “How Safe Is Cycling? It’s Hard to Say.” The article touches on several fascinating points. The first is that we don’t have good data to give us an indication of exactly how dangerous cycling is compared to […]
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E-bikes and injury prevention
The ever-problematic struggle between mobility and safety is not exclusive to motorised jurisdictions such as Australia or the United States. Indeed emerging evidence suggests that developing nations are particularly vulnerable as they struggle to develop, implement and enforce road rule strategies to minimise risks to safety whilst maximising the nation’s mobility. Whilst worldwide the demand for […]
Open access: I told you so
I have often inveighed against open access journals, or at least urged readers of this blog to be alert to predatory journals. Recently Retraction Watch posted an item from Science that greatly strengthens my concerns. The posting describes a paper sent to over 300 OA journals that was accepted by over one half. The only […]
The oft-forgotten ally: Patients and injury prevention
Unfortunately I have had the recent pleasure of injuring myself – not through any heroic activity such as lifting a crashed car off a small child, but, good grief, simply through removing an article of clothing – and to prevent a similar injury I had been counselled by those in the know that surgery was my only […]
Impact factor revisited
I have made my feelings about the impact factor well known but still, far too many cling to it as if it were some sort of holy grail. Now it seems I was both wrong and right: it appears to be both deeply flawed but better than any of the alternatives. Readers should weigh in […]
Jackson obituary in Daily Telegraph
As promised, this is an excerpt from an obituary for Hugh Jackson that appeared over the weekend and which was sent to me by Mike Hayes. The link to the full obituary is: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10378427/Hugh-Jackson.html “Hugh Jackson, the paediatrician, who has died aged 95, campaigned to prevent injury in children, contributing to such causes as childproof packaging […]
People in the news; Hugh Jackson, OBE –
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 […]
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 […]
Anti helmet legislation revisited… and why replication is important
Another anti helmet legislation argument bites the dust When Ian Walker’s paper appeared in Accid Anal Prev in 2007 purporting to show that cars drove closer to helmeted than unhelmeted cyclists, it was quickly used as another argument against helmet legislation. But for me as a long time cyclist, something did not ring true. Jake […]