Drowning in swimming pools is a significant cause of preventable deaths and hospitalisations among children in New Zealand. 61% of those who drown in home swimming pools in New Zealand are under 5. Much evidence shows that completely enclosing a swimming pool with four sided fencing and isolating it from the home is the most […]
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News from Brazil – car safety
Two interesting, off-beat items submitted by Danilo Blank from Brazil that did not make the cut for News and Nots […]
IP People in the News
Louis Francescutti, elected President of Royal College. The official announcement reads: “The Royal College is pleased to announce that Louis Hugo Francescutti, MD, PhD, MPH, FRCPC, FACPM, CCFP officially became the 41st president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada on October 18. The University of Alberta professor, emergency room / preventive […]
Injury v. Accident: Google N-gram Viewer (2)
Many thanks to Brian for calling terminology buffs’ attention to this really catchy Google Books Ngram Viewer. But as far as injury terminology goes, I do not think those graphs quite settle the question; the matter certainly deserves a harder look. First, the true science of injury control actually started out in the sixties, so […]
Injury v. Accident: Google N-gram Viewer
Have a look at Google labs N-gram viewer. It is either a really cool bibliographic and linguistic research tool or an incredible time sink … or maybe both. Google has digitized millions of books in English, mostly, but also in several other major languages. Single words and “n” word combinations are catalogued and described in […]
No Need to Grope
Leonard Evans on travel safety… […]
Sue Baker is Queen for a Day
Sue Baker receives important award […]
US releases “Healthy People 2020”
The US government today released Healthy People 2020, a blueprint of indicators and targets used to set the country’s health-promotion and disease-prevention agenda. The framework includes a series of indicators for violence and injury prevention. Most goals are modest – a 10% reduction from baseline rates over 10 years. Some even call for simply stopping […]
Media sightings
Brian Johnston and Flaura Winston were both quoted in a New York Times article appearing this past summer. Brian’s views on injury proneness were reported alongside Flaura’s regarding the risk of injury to a sibling following a sib injury. Brian postulated that this might involve ‘post-traumatic arousal’ (a component of PSTD) that increases vulnerability. Flaura […]
Disseminating and implementing injury prevention across cultures
The field of injury prevention enjoys a growing evidence base supporting the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions to prevent or mitigate many common injuries. Unfortunately, access to these interventions, policy and products is often limited in low and middle income countries. Dissemination of these effective interventions is an important but neglected strategy to address the […]