It appears that Thailand has solid traffic injury prevention laws but as is true of far too many other countries they are not enforced. This paradox applies to speeding, seatbelt use, drunk driving and motorcycle helmet use. Editor: I found it bizarre that in response one official said, “The first thing that must be done […]
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PhD Scholarship Opportunity
The University of Ballarat (Australia) has a new Centre for Healthy and Safe Sport (CHASS), under the direction of Professor Caroline Finch. CHASS is offering two PhD scholarship opportunities. Applications from both Australian and International candidates are invited: Statistical coding, classification and analysis Advanced statistical modelling of longitudinal injury data e.g. time series modelling and prediction, survival analysis […]
People in the news: Sue Baker
In the October 16 issue of the New York Times Magazine, Robert Stock has written a marvelous article about Sue Baker and her work. If this captivating photo is not enough to encourage you to seek it out, nothing will. The piece is long, beautifully written, and so detailed it could serve as a history […]
Research tools
MakeUseOf http://www.makeuseof.com/ is, if you will pardon what may or may not be a pun, a remarkably useful website. I receive an email newsletter regularly and more often than not it includes some extremely helpful advice. This week it dealt with ‘tools’ (electronic) that might prove helpful when doing research. These range from free word […]
Watch these words!
I was recently going through some old files and found a letter to the editor of our Montreal paper in which I pointed out that the Lancet was not a ‘muckraking’ in the negative sense the paper’s editorial implied. As I noted, muckraking is a positive term; an activity that sheds light on bad behaviour, […]
Are we being too safe?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323622904578129063506832312.html?mod=googlenews_wsj. This a link to a fairly recent Wall Street Journal article, Playing It Too Safe, which essentially argues that children should take more risks. It is a bit more nuanced than many of the ‘school of hard knocks’ rhetoric and thus worth reading. I don’t agree with the view but you might. If you […]
Dumb ways to die
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Textbooks for Injury Prevention?
Like most disciplines, injury prevention has a small library of books devoted to the subject. I am interested in which of those books we use to teach injury epidemiology and injury prevention practice. Of course, there are a number of titles out there that appeal to a non-technical audience. David Hemenway’s While We Were Sleeping: Success […]
Fillers.. what you may be missing
Most editors of print journals hate ‘white space’ i.e., space at the end of a paper that is simply empty. It seems such a waste especially when print is so precious. So we try to fill those spaces with interesting tidbits, sometimes amusing, often just snippets of news items not sufficiently detailed to warrant including […]
Solid advice for authors (and researchers)
A discussion by World Association of Medical Editors on self-plagiarism prompted Iain Chalmers, one of the Cochrane pioneers at Oxford University, to remind us of that there are more important issues to contend with. He wrote: “Last week I was at a 2-day meeting hosted by the EQUATOR Network and the German Cochrane Centre. The standard […]