Over recent years there has been increasing concern that some children are being exposed to increasing levels of injury risk because they are playing too much sport. The issue is particularly pertinent for children who are identified as having sporting talent and who may be participating in intensive sporting competitions over a short period […]
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María Seguí Gómez Our board member, Maria Segui, has been appointed General Director of Public Health, Drug Dependency and Consumption for the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Comment: This is a huge tribute to Maria’s extraordinary talents but a great loss to European Centre for Injury Prevention at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain […]
Spain fines makers of film over ‘reckless’ poster
Thanks to David Lawrence for bringing this to my attention. […]
How things used to be – my first injury
When I was 7 years old I fell off a slide on which has been placed a see-saw to prevent 7-year-olds from using the slide. I broke my wrist. Here was the bill my family received. (Note the spelling error!) […]
A new Lynn Truss book on punctuation “Twenty-odd Ducks: Why, every punctuation mark counts!
For those who share my passion for good punctuation, and who enjoyed Lynn Truss’s witty, clever, useful book “Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation”, I have just discovered that she has another such book out. The blurb below is from Amazon. [No, I do not get a cut of the profits.] […]
Mental Models in Injury Prevention
This month’s editor’s choice is Injury Prevention and Risk Communication: a mental models approach by Laurel Austin and Baruch Fischhoff. We’ve published this special feature (which is free online) to highlight an empirically-grounded, systematic approach to thinking about health behavior, behavior change and intervention design. I suspect many of us use a ‘mental models’ framework […]
Academic journals: an open and shut case | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
This link was sent to me by Tim Albert who is a freelance scientific writer trainer. It is a powerful indictment of the traditional publishing model and makes a strong case for open access journals. I have written about this before. In essence, although I approve of the moral argument, the problems with OA need […]
End-user considerations are important for successful injury prevention implementation planning and better sports medicine screening decision making
Successful prevention program implementation and dissemination of advice requires careful planning. An editorial by Donaldson and Finch in the April 2012 46(5) issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) stresses that such planning must be strategic, systematic and contextual. This editorial also emphasises that the perspectives of the end-users in relation to […]
Twitter for dissemination of injury messages – more discussion about primary prevention needed
In his recent blog about Twitter feeds for injury prevention, Editor Brian Johnston highlights the value of this social media tool for keeping abreast of injury prevention knowledge. His message is aimed mainly at the researcher, practitioner and policy readers of Injury Prevention. As someone who has been actively using and accessing Twitter over […]
Another bit of writing wisdom
Avoid the misuse of literally! It is often (not) literally correct!.. The Montreal Gazette runs a column by Mark Abley on writing. This is one of my favourites, reprinted with his kind permission. ..”When the global oil companies run your country,” the B.C. columnist Murray Dobbin wrote a few weeks ago, “when they own your […]