By Abraham Bergman, MD Departments of Pediatrics of Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington I could not have had a more rewarding professional career. I joined the University of Washington pediatric faculty in 1964 and was based at two wonderful hospitals, Seattle Children’s for 18 years, and Harborview Medical Center for […]
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Gun Injuries and Survival: Why Neighborhood Matters
As part of the firearms special issue, author Giovanni Circo has contributed this blog post that articulates with his Original Article: Distance to trauma centres among gunshot wound victims: identifying trauma ‘deserts’ and ‘oases’ in Detroit Giovanni Circo is an assistant professor in the Henry C Lee College of Criminal Justice at the University […]
Location location location: the importance of injury location
As part of the firearms special issue, author Brianna Mills has contributed this blog post that articulates with her brief report Firearm assault injuries by residence and injury occurrence location. Brianna Mills is a Research Scientist at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington in the United States. Dr. Mills […]
Income Inequality and Firearm Homicide in the United States
As part of the firearms special issue, authors Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Duane Alexander Quistberg, Erin R Morgan, Anjum Hajat, Frederick P Rivara have contributed this blog post that articulates with their original article Income Inequality and Firearm Homicide in the United States: A County Level Cohort Study. The U.S. has one of the highest […]
“Lock to Live” for firearm safety: A tool for patient-centered injury prevention
As part of the firearms special issue, author Emmy Betz, MD, MPH (Twitter: @EmmyBetz) has contributed this blog post that articulates with her original article “Lock to Live”: Development of a firearm storage decision aid to enhance lethal means counseling and prevent suicide “Are there usually firearms in or near your home?” This […]
Preventing Firearm Suicide through the Social Ecological Model
As part of the firearms special issue, authors Adelyn Allchin, Vicka Chaplin, and Josh Horwitz have contributed this blog post that articulates with their Special Feature Limiting Access to Lethal Means Applying the Social Ecological Model for Firearm Suicide Prevention. Adelyn Allchin, MPH – Adelyn Allchin is the Senior Director of Public Health and Policy […]
Slow Zones, Safe Zones in Vietnam
Written by: Sidik M, Attwood P, Powlowski R, Ariobowo A, Peden M Can you imagine… that there are 68 people are killed on our roads in Vietnam every day? Every single day, 68 people leave their homes in the morning and never return. This is the same as one Airbus A380 crashing every week […]
Saving children’s lives: The Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge
Authors: Margie Peden, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Dave Elseroad, Ennada Lagouit, Judy Fleiter According to the World Health Organization, road traffic injuries claim more than 1.35 million lives each year, injure and disable millions more and have a huge impact on victims, families, communities and governments. Road traffic deaths are particularly frequent among children accounting […]
The Injury Prevention podcast: listen now
In case you missed it, Injury Prevention has revived its podcast series. In each podcast we interview the author of that edition’s editor’s choice article. The first four episodes of our podcast under EIC Rod McClure are available to listen now, and are: My top papers are… Rachid Salmi on escaping tigers, a […]
Of earthquakes, tsunamis and seawalls
A new original research paper “The effect of seawalls on tsunami evacuation departure in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake” is now available online in Injury Prevention. In this blog post, the authors share more about the background and findings of this work. Giancarlos Troncoso Parady is assistant professor of urban planning at the University […]