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Injury Research - Theories, Methods, and Approaches (Hardcover, 2012)
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Injury Research - Theories, Methods, and Approaches (Hardcover, 2012)
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Injury is recognized as a major public health issue worldwide. In
most countries, injury is the leading cause of death and disability
for children and young adults age 1 to 39 years. Each year in the
United States, injury claims about 170,000 lives and results in
over 30 million emergency room visits and 2.5 million
hospitalizations. Injury is medically defined as organ/tissue
damages inflicted upon oneself or by an external agent either
accidentally or deliberately. Injury encompasses the undesirable
consequences of a wide array of events, such as motor vehicle
crashes, poisoning, burns, falls, and drowning, medical error,
adverse effects of drugs, suicide and homicide. The past two
decades have witnessed a remarkable growth in injury research, both
in scope and in depth. To address the tremendous health burden of
injury morbidity and mortality at the global level, the World
Health Organization in 2000 created the Department of Injury and
Violence Prevention, which has produced several influential reports
on violence, traffic injury, and childhood injury. The biennial
World Conference on Injury Control and Safety Promotion attracts a
large international audience and has been successfully convened
nine times in different countries. In the United States, the
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control became an
independent program of the federal Centers for Disease Prevention
and Control in 1997. Since then, each state health department has
created an office in charge of injury prevention activities and
over a dozen universities have established injury control research
centers. This volume will fill an important gap in the scientific
literature by providing a comprehensive and up-to-date reference
resource to researchers, practitioners, and students working on
different aspects of the injury problem and in different practice
settings and academic fields.
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