Injury Prevention Podcast

Reporting at Safety 2022: all shades of Injury Prevention represented

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:41:00 +0000

Ever wondered what it would be like to help design and run a world injury conference? Come visit Safety 2022, in a conversation with a member of the Australian Organising Committee. Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McLure, talks with Dr Amy Peden* at the Safety 2022 Conference, in Adelaide, Australia. *Bachelor of Arts (Government and International Relations, Social Policy), Master of Public Policy, PhD (Health); School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of NSW Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

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Leadership in injury prevention, with Professor Fred Rivara

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:45:00 +0000

In this month's podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Dr Rod McClure, talks with Professor Fred Rivara, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, School of Medicine. They explore what is unique about Injury Prevention as a field, and where this field integrates with the more general world of public health. They also discuss leadership in injury prevention and the major challenges ahead. Some of Professor Fred Rivara's latest papers: - A Qualitative study on diverse perspectives and identities of firearm owners - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/5/434 - Concussion education for youth athletes using Pre-Game Safety Huddles: a cluster-randomised controlled trial - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2022/09/16/ip-2022-044665 - Predictors of health-related quality of life following injury in childhood and adolescence: a pooled analysis - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/4/301 - Association of state-level intoxicated driving laws with firearm homicide and suicide - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/1/32 - Age, period and cohort effects in firearm homicide and suicide in the USA, 1983–2017 - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/4/344 Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Collaboration in Injury Prevention, with Pamela Fuselli

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:32:00 +0100

In this podcast we talk about national collaboration across the field of injury prevention through the eyes of Pamela Fuselli, president and CEO of a national injury prevention charity, in Canada, Parachute. We also discuss the upcoming 2022 Canadian Injury Prevention Conference. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Professor David Hemenway: a public health career in ”a brand new field”, and five books

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:42:00 +0100

David Hemenway, PhD, is Professor of Health Policy, and the Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Research at the interface, with Professor Flaura Winston, paediatrician

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:47:00 +0100

This month, we explore the career of Professor Flaura Winston, Scientific Director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Distinguished Chair in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr Winston is a board-certified pediatrician, a doctorally-trained engineer, and a public health researcher, who conducts research at the interface of child and adolescent health, injury, engineering, and behavioral science. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

“If you don’t have a mentor, go and get them!”, Dr Mark Rosenberg’s 40 years in Injury Prevention

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:48:00 +0100

In a very personal interview, Dr Mark Rosenberg, who has been at the centre of injury prevention for more than a generation, tells Dr Rod McClure, about his path in a career that was not always understood. "We were given an old bathroom in the sub-sub-basement of a minor building and a lot of people in public health thought that's just where we belonged." Mark L. Rosenberg was president and CEO of the Task Force for Global Health, and has also worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 20 years, where he was instrumental in founding the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Handguns, structural racism, and an intersectional framework: 3 student papers

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:03:00 +0100

This month we chat with three students recently awarded for their papers at the SAVIR injury conference in the USA. Stephen Oliphant is a Doctoral Candidate, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University; Kelsey Conrick is a Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, University of Washington; and Mudia Uzzi is a Doctoral Candidate, Health Policy Research Scholar at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Department of Health, Behavior and Society Johns Hopkins University. Read these and the other Abstracts from the SAVIR conference on the Injury Prevention website: "Do handgun purchase waiting periods save lives? Evidence from a synthetic control approach" - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/Suppl_1/A6.2 "Modeling the association of structural racism with disparities in firearm homicide victimization" - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/Suppl_1/A23.1 "Investigating violence disparities through an intersectional lens: using additive interaction approaches to explore the relationship of redlining and racialized economic segregation on non-fatal shootings in Baltimore city, Maryland" - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/Suppl_1/A57.2. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Growing ”a broad field”: research and practice. The SAVIR conference

Tue, 03 May 2022 18:44:00 +0100

In this conversation with two members of the scientific committee of the recently held conference of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR), we focus on ways of growing the field of Injury Prevention and include new generations of emerging professionals. Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, interviews Rosemary Nabaweesi, Associate Professor in the Center for Health Policy at the School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Tennessee, and Elizabeth E. O’Neal, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

From Canada to Sweden. Effective roadside barriers, plus electric cars: opportunities vs safety cost

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 22:47:00 +0100

"Someone has to make a bold experiment once in a while". This month, we talk to Professor Robert Thomson, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. The discussion begins with PhD work on roadside barriers and ends with a discussion about commitment to grand visions, preventing injuries and saving lives. "Here's what you can do if your government and your society gets on board". The conversation, lead by Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure, also covers the unintended safety costs of electrification of modern vehicles. There remains a world of opportunity for the safety engineer. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Changing the perception: diversity and representation within academic Injury Prevention

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:04:00 +0000

In this podcast, we walk in the shoes of two PhD scholars starting out on their careers in violence and injury prevention research. Jennifer L. Thompson, MPH, and Lauren Malthaner, MPH, University of Texas, School of Public Health, describe their personal and diverse aspects of the experience they bring to their Doctoral studies. They talk about how their experiences shape their aspirations. They talk of the experience of pandemic learning and provide demonstration of how deep reflection and frank articulation of insights are such important drivers of necessary change. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

”I like being a big fish in a small pond”, an epidemiologist in an unconventional field

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:44:00 +0000

Dr Rebecca Spicer, Impact Research, LLC, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist working among engineers to make cars safer. A change of path in her career that is allowing her to see her "work make a difference". In this conversation with Dr Rod McClure, she advises career-seekers to "look beyond what's normal". Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

How to produce meaningful research and how to translate it into practice?

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:15:00 +0000

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Professor Rod McClure, interviews Dr Sharon Newnam. Dr Newnam is Associate Professor (Research), Monash University Accident Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia, and has made significant contributions to translating science to industry and government. She describes her research on the factors influencing safety performance in the workplace, from the individual characteristics of workers to the safety practices of management and beyond. Dr Newnam provides a road map for people wanting to learn how to make research matter. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Helmet type, road safety, covid-19 lockdowns. An oromaxillofacial surgeon preventing injuries in KL

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:14:00 +0000

Professor Roszalina Ramli, Department of oral and maxillofacial surgery, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon by training, who developed skills in biomechanics and epidemiology in order to solve what she saw as a major community problem. In this podcast, Dr Ramli tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, how she stepped from the operating theatre to research, and into public health policy. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Violence epidemiology with Dr Katelyn Jetelina

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:43:00 +0000

Is there only one way into the field of injury prevention? And once there, do we all find the same thing, and follow the same path? Dr Katelyn Jetelina's unique research journey in the broader theme of violence has covered, among many other subjects, the correlation between suicide and cancer, or the covid-19 pandemic and intimate partner violence. It's a fascinating path that has a lot to tell to young researchers. Dr Jetelina is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening. Relevant papers related to this podcast: 56 The impact of intimate partner violence on breast and cervical cancer treatment among patients in an integrated, safety-net setting - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_1/A4.2 Changes in intimate partner violence during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/1/93 Factors associated with civilian and police officer injury during 10 years of officer-involved shooting incidents - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/6/509 Gradual escalation of use-of-force reduces police officer injury - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/1/35

111 The impact urbanization has on law enforcement stress during traumatic calls for service - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_1/A54.1

Data Science: new approaches and applications to injury prevention

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:36:00 +0100

Dr Carl Bonander, Karlstad University, Sweden, is an injury prevention researcher developing innovative applications of data science to solve real world problems. A self-described skeptic his new discoveries are driven by his search for answers to the question "why". Listen to the podcast and read some related articles published by Injury Prevention: - Compared with what? Estimating the effects of injury prevention policies using the synthetic control method - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i60 - Can the provision of a home help service for the elderly population reduce the incidence of fall-related injuries? A quasi-experimental study of the community-level effects on hospital admissions in Swedish municipalities - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/22/6/412 - The effect of the transition from the ninth to the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases on external cause registration of injury morbidity in Sweden - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/3/189 Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening.

A surprising path to the Global Road Safety Partnership

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:03:00 +0100

In the style of a “choose your own adventure”, our guest this month, Dr Judy Fleiter, takes us on a journey through the decision points in her career. Not afraid to step through small gaps to see what lies beyond, Dr Fleiter walks now on the world stage. As a key player at the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, she is an outstanding example of the modern collaborative leader. Judy Fleiter PhD, is the Global Manager with the Global Road Safety Partnership International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in Geneva, Switzerland. Read more about road safety: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/ The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

AI and big data in injury prevention

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 19:56:00 +0100

In this month's podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, talks with Henry Xiang, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Professor Xiang's trained in China in Clinical Medicine and spent most of his career as a researcher in big data in the USA.

The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Preventing occupational injury in Indigenous and First Nations people

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0100

This month we talk with Dr Brett Shannon, John Monash Scholar and PhD Student at the University of Illinois Chicago, who has an extensive professional track record in medicine, epidemiology, business and policy to identify critical areas in need of further research in occupational health among Indigenous people.

Night-time subsidised rideshares and prevention of road traffic injuries

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 17:35:00 +0100

Alcohol-related vehicle crashes pose a significant challenge to public health in suburban communities. The Evesham Saving Lives programme operated between late 2015 and 2019 in two townships in New Jersey. The programme subsidised rideshare (eg, Uber) trips from bars and restaurants to prevent alcohol-related traffic injuries, and is the basis of this month's podcast. Professor Rod McClure interviews David Humphreys, Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation, Research fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, about the editor’s choice paper of the month titled “Assessing the impact of a local community subsidised rideshare programme on road traffic injuries: an evaluation of the Evesham Saving Lives programme” and available here: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/3/232.

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Involving public and politicians in Injury Prevention

Wed, 05 May 2021 18:51:00 +0100

This month’s interview is with Professor Alison Macpherson, from the Faculty of Health, York University, Canada. As an experienced and passionate academic, she believes that policy makers and the public need to be included in research from the beginning of the research process. She also tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, how important it would be to get students more involved. Related paper published by Injury Prevention: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/5/321

The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

ICD-10-CM Injury Epidemiology and Surveillance Methods

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:21:00 +0100

In this month’s podcast, Rod McLure talks to Renee Johnson, Dr. Holly Hedegaard, Emilia Pasalic, and Pedro Martinez, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US. They are Guest Editors of the Injury Prevention's new supplement, which explores injury epidemiology and surveillance methods using ICD-10-CM coded data, and was published in March 2021. Read it on the Injury Prevention website: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/S1 Please also read the blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/injury-prevention/2021/03/05/setting-the-foundation-for-using-icd-10-cm-coded-data-for-injury-surveillance-and-epidemiology/

The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Quality data and public policy: understanding the causes of causes

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:21:00 +0000

In this month’s podcast, Rod McLure talks to Professor Richard Matzopoulos, about his work as a researcher-practitioner working across government and academia in South Africa. He details his data-driven policy work to support an evidence-based approach to large impact upstream nation-level interventions. Richard Matzopoulos is a Chief Specialist Scientist and Co-Director of the South African Medical Research Council’s Burden of Disease Research Unit and an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Division of Public Health Medicine, where he co-ordinates its Violence and Injury Research programme. His research centres on measuring the health and social burden of violence and injury, and evaluating interventions and policies that target upstream determinants. He advises the Western Cape Government on alcohol harm reduction, and interpersonal violence and injury prevention and surveillance. He is a South African focal point for the international Violence Prevention Alliance and a member of the International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics and Methods.

The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Cycling: testing the concept of “Safety in Density” in artificial societies

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:43:00 +0000

What is the “safety in numbers” effect? And how can research conducted in simulated environments challenge the results of real-life studies about cyclists safety? The discussion in this podcast with Dr Jason Thompson, University of Melbourne, Australia, introduces the idea of modeling artificial societies, and suggests ways these agent-based models can be used to advance injury prevention.

Read the related paper on the Injury Prevention website: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/5/379

A public health issue and the practice-based knowledge

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 23:22:00 +0000

Morag Mackay, Research Director, Safekids Worldwide, is an injury prevention expert with high-level experience in research policy and practice. In this podcast, she stresses the need for training in the field of injury prevention, and acknowledges the wider context within which injury prevention is practiced. A related article authored by Morag has been published by Injury Prevention: injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i67

The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Lessons from Emeritus Professor Barry Pless, founding editor

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 18:05:00 +0000

On the 25th anniversary of the Injury Prevention journal, we talk to Emeritus Professor Barry Pless, founding Editor-in-Chief and Director of the Community, Developmental and Epidemiologic Research, at the Montreal Children's Hospital, Canada. Read the related Editorial of the December issue: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/6/505

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Bringing clinical practice into injury prevention research

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:48:00 +0000

In this month’s podcast, we talk to Denise Kendrick, General Practitioner in the north of England with a quiet passion for supporting her patients' health outcomes, and the population health outcomes of communities within which her patients live. She has focused on the prevention of injury in young and older people, improving injury recovery, and translating research to practice over the last 20 years. To read some of Dr Kendrick’s research please visit the Injury Prevention website through the direct links below: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2020/10/16/injuryprev-2020-043877 https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/5/453 More related papers about the topics of this podcast: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/6/557 https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/4/258 https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Supp_1/i67 https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/3/199

The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Digging deeper into the heterogeneity of injuries

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:45:00 +0100

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, talks to Erin Hamilton (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle) about the Global Burden of Disease (GBD), the same topic of a special issue just published by Injury Prevention. Read more on the journal's website: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Supp_1

The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Understanding your market for effective injury prevention

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 18:33:00 +0100

In this month’s podcast, we bring you an orderly walk through the life of a senior in the field. It moves from childhood drivers through private, to not profit, to public sector experiences and how it all comes together in the current job of Professor Ian Pike, University of British Columbia, Canada. Read more about these topics on the Injury Prevention website - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/ - and blog - http://blogs.bmj.com/injury-prevention/.

The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Opioids, road safety, and the effectiveness of public policy as an injury prevention tool

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:32:00 +0100

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure,talks to Dr. Becky Naumann. She is a research assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and core faculty at UNC's Injury Prevention Research Center. Dr. Naumann’s main area of research has focused on understanding risk factors and trends of unintentional injuries and evaluating injury prevention interventions, largely in the areas of road traffic injury and opioid overdose. Read more about these topics on the Injury Prevention website - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/ - and blog - http://blogs.bmj.com/injury-prevention/.

The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Nationwide public health responses: what can we learn from COVID-19 to prevent injury

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:11:00 +0100

In this podcast, Rod McLure talks to Associate Professor Bridget Kool about New Zealand's success in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discuss the implications of this success for injury prevention.

Engineering health and sustainable mobility in the post-COVID-19 era

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:16:00 +0100

Fewer cars, more walking and cycling after the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests the Head of Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research at Monash University in this month’s podcast. Dr Ben Beck, who’s the President of the Australasian Injury Prevention Network, believes that enhancing safety and reducing injury will require a shift in cities infrastructure investments. He also tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, how his path in this field started through biomechanics.

https://blogs.bmj.com/injury-prevention/2020/03/19/covid19-latest-news-and-resources-at-the-bmj/

Dr Margie Peden - from nursing and clinical practice to global health

Wed, 06 May 2020 13:28:00 +0100

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, interviews Dr Margie Peden, Head of the Global Injury Programme at the George Institute, University of Oxford, and co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Injury Prevention and Trauma Care.

The conversation takes them from clinical practice in trauma units in South Africa to her work in injury prevention with the WHO, in Geneva, for almost 20 years.

Road crash injury risks: dangerous vehicles and gender disparities

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:27:00 +0100

Motorcycles pose higher risk to other road users than cars, according to the study discussed in this podcast. Rod McClure talks to Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, about her recent paper published by Injury Prevention, which analyses the risk of injury to others constituted by six different transport modes, driver's/riders’ gender and type of roads. The study also confirms that men drivers pose more risk than women drivers to the community.

Read the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043534

Overcoming the fragmentation of the injury prevention field

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:34:00 +0000

What does it mean to be an injury prevention scientist? Rod McClure asks Associate Professor Lyndal Bugeja (Nursing and Midwifery and the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia). They also discuss the challenge of the fragmentation of disciplines in the Injury Prevention field.

What is Injury Surveillance?

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:20:00 +0000

In this podcast, Rod McClure discusses with statistician Yvette Holder the importance of data and evidence-based driven decisions in the context of 'Injury Surveillance', a field of injury prevention which is all about understanding the nature of the injury problem, its causes, and then helping people implement solutions.

Road safety and violence prevention - interview with Dr Andres Villaveces

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:08:00 +0000

Dr Andrés Villaveces, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC USA, has come from 'grassroots' through the main injury prevention institutions of the world. He tells Rod McClure about his pathway to injury prevention and leaves some advice for students in this area.

Violence and Injury Research - why does it matter?

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:34:00 +0000

The focus of the podcast this month is the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). Editor-in-Chief Rod McClure chats to the President of the SAVIR, Dr Linda Degutis, about the work of the society and the role of the journal of Injury Prevention on the work of preventing and treating injury and violence. https://www.savirweb.org/

https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/

A vision of safer cities

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:21:00 +0000

Technology is bringing both challenges and new solutions to the injury prevention science. Professor Richard Franklin, Co-Director of the World Safety Organisation Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, James Cook University, Australia, has a positive view of the future of our cities, which will rely much more on active and safe transportation. He tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure about the evidence-based and public health approaches of his work, especially in rural populations.

They also discuss the upcoming Safety 2020 - the world conference taking place in Adelaide, Australia, which organising committee Professor Franklin is part of (https://www.worldsafety2020.com).

Abe Bergman, paediatrician with a lifetime in injury prevention… and many stories

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:34:00 +0100

It started with a campaign for the bicycle helmet in children. It didn’t become a national priority, but helped to increase its usage from 2% to 70% in the last two decades in the USA. Dr. Abraham “Abe” Bergman has dedicated most of his long career as a pediatrician to the field of injury prevention. He helped found the Harborview Center and, at 87, he tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure some of his success stories, but also frustrations of the last 60 years.

Read the related blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/injury-prevention/2019/10/03/personal-disappointments-in-injury-prevention-abe-bergman/

Firearms injury as a public health problem in the US: origins and challenges

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:39:00 +0100

Dr Deb Azrael tells the "origin story" of firearms injury as a public health problem through the lens of one of the key firearms research groups in the US over nearly 30 years. She also discusses current data of gun possession, suicide rates and the real challenges of this problem in the country. Read the special issue of Injury Prevention on firearms: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/Suppl_1.

The editorial of the special issue is available here: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/Suppl_1/i1.

Safe spaces for children to be active

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:21:00 +0100

In this podcast, Professor Brent Hagel, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McLure, how his career as a scientist moved from an undergraduate degree in health education through to injury prevention in sports and more recently to methods of encouraging physical activity within a safe environment. The conversation evolves to a detailed discussion of the rigorous methodological approaches used in injury prevention. The articles mentioned in this podcast are: - Hagel BE, Meeuwisse WH, Mohtadi NG, Fick GH.Skiing and snowboarding injuries in the children and adolescents of Southern Alberta.Clin J Sport Med. 1999 Jan;9(1):9-17; - Thompson DC, Rivara FP, Thompson RS.Effectiveness of bicycle safety helmets in preventing head injuries. A case-control study.JAMA. 1996 Dec 25;276(24):1968-73; - Roberts I, Marshall R, Lee-Joe T. The urban traffic environment and the risk of child pedestrian injury: a case-crossover approach. Epidemiology. 1995 Mar;6(2):169-71;

- Runyan CW. Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension. Inj Prev. 1998 Dec;4(4):302-7 (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/4/4/302).

Redesigning traffic for people and the environment. Professor Ian Roberts on his shift to prevention

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:58:00 +0100

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Ian Roberts first trained as a paediatrician in the UK and then studied injury prevention and trauma care in New Zealand and Canada. In this podcast, he tells Rod McClure how a young death triggered the swap from a career in treatment to one in prevention. He also talks about the need to think about injury prevention in a more sustainable way.

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Mark Stevenson on mobile phones, big data and a new era in Injury Prevention

Thu, 23 May 2019 17:48:00 +0100

Mark Stevenson (University of Melbourne, Australia) is one of the State of the Art Review Editors of Injury Prevention. He talks with Rod McClure about a new era in the practice of Injury Prevention supported by technology and big data, both powerful allies in his most recent work. More details of the papers mentioned in this podcast: - The epidemiology of accidents. American Journal of Public Health. 1949, 39(4):504-515 - The role of sleepiness, sleep disorders, and the work environment on heavy-vehicle crashes in 2 Australian states. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2014, 179(5):594-601. - Childhood drowning: barriers surrounding private swimming pools. Pediatrics, 2003, 111: e115-e119. - Land use, transport and population health; estimating the health benefits of compact cities. Lancet, 2016; published online Sept 23.

- The role of mobile phones in motor vehicle crashes resulting in hospital attendance: a case-crossover study. British Medical Journal, 2005, 331:428-433. - https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7514/428

“Injury Prevention was an accident”. Putting injury in the national agenda in India

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:24:00 +0100

Dr Rakhi Dandona, PhD, is a Clinical Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and at the Public Health Foundation of India, She is a lead investigator on epidemiological studies on injuries, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, blindness and mortality estimation and also an Associate Editor of Injury Prevention. In this podcast, Dr Dandona tells Rod McClure how she almost didn't pursuit Injury Prevention and why research contradicts some of the national stats regarding injury and mortality in India. The papers mentioned in this podcast: 1 - Haddon W Jr. The changing approach to the epidemiology, prevention, and amelioration of trauma: the transition to approaches etiologically rather than descriptively based. 1968. Inj Prev. 1999 Sep;5(3):231-5. (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/5/3/231) 2 - Dandona R, Kumar GA, Ameer MA, Ahmed GM, Dandona L. Incidence and burden of road traffic injuries in urban India. Inj Prev. 2008 Dec;14(6):354-9. (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/14/6/354)

3 - Dandona R, Bertozzi-Villa A, Kumar GA, Dandona L. Lessons from a decade of suicide surveillance in India: who, why and how? Int J Epidemiol. 2017 Jun 1;46(3):983-993. (https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/3/983/2617187)

Road safety and communication. Why Professor Martha Híjar chose research over public service

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:31:00 +0100

Professor Martha Híjar has recently made the decision of leaving her role as the Director of the National Council for Injury Prevention of the Ministry of Health in México to go back to research. She explains why in this conversation with Professor Rod McClure. She is a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México and author and co-author of many articles in the Injury Prevention field, the majority of which are written in Spanish, so "they can reach all her colleagues in Latin America” she tells. Professor Híjar also talks about taking on the job of editing Injury Prevention and explores her Mexico-city-based career path in this field. References to the mentioned papers below: - Baker SP. Childhood Injuries: The Community Approach to Prevention. J Public Health Policy 2:235-246, 1981. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3342369 - Híjar MC, Carrillo C, Flores M, Anaya R, Lopez MV. Factores de riesgo de lesión por accidentes de tráfico y el impacto de una intervención en carretera. (Risk factors for road traffic injuries on highway, impact of an intervention on the road) Rev Saúde Pública de Brasil.1999, 33 (5):505-51. https://www.scielosp.org/pdf/rsp/1999.v33n5/505-512/es - Híjar M, Troste J, Bronfman M. Pedestrian injuries in México: a multi-method approach. Social Science & Medicine 2003, 57(11):2149-2159.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953603000674

Poverty and children’s burn injury. How common citizens help shape Injury Prevention in South Africa

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:11:00 +0000

This month’s guest is a specialist in childhood burns and violence-related injuries in South Africa. Professor Ashley Van Niekerk is the deputy director of the Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa. He tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Professor Rod McClure, how the social changes of the 1990s and the current political and economic unrest in the country have been shaping his career in Injury Prevention. Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (injuryprevention.bmj.com) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month. The articles mentioned in this podcast are: Van Niekerk, A., Govender, R., Hornsby, N., & Swart, L. (2017). Household and caregiver characteristics and behaviours as predictors of unsafe exposure of children to paraffin appliances. Burns, 43, 866-876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2016.10.022 Van Niekerk, A., Tonsing, S., Seedat, M., Jacobs, R., Ratele, K. & McClure, R. (2015). The invisibility of men in South African violence prevention policy: National prioritisation, male vulnerability, and framing prevention. Global Health Action, 8: 27649. https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.27649 Lockhat R, Van Niekerk A. (2000). South African children and mental health: A history of adversity, violence and trauma. Ethnicity and Health, 5(3/4), 291-302.

https://doi.org/10.1080/713667462

Injury and violence: achieving population level change

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:40:00 +0000

In the first podcast of the year, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure talks to Natalie Wilkins, from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Dr Wilkins experience in the injury prevention field ranges from opioids overuse to car accidents, sports injury, child abuse and suicide. She is the guest editor of a supplement of the Injury Prevention journal titled “Achieving population level change”, which brings together different approaches for achieving population-level change to improve injury-related health of communities. Read it for free: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1. A list of specific papers mentioned in this podcast below: A social change perspective on injury prevention in China - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i25 What matters, when, for whom? three questions to guide population health scholarship - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i3 New York City’s window guard policy: four decades of success - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i14 How the science of injury prevention contributes to advancing home fire safety in the USA: successes and opportunities - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i7 Compared with what? Estimating the effects of injury prevention policies using the synthetic control method - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i60

Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (injuryprevention.bmj.com) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month.

Firearms injury. Professor David Studdert on mass shootings, health law and changing careers

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:23:00 +0000

In the second podcast of a series about the papers that helped shape a career in Injury Prevention, Professor Rod McClure talks to Professor David Studdert, expert in health law and empirical legal research from the Stanford Law School and Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, whose latest research career focus on the burden of injuries and deaths from firearms, especially in the wake of mass shootings. Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (injuryprevention.bmj.com) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month. More about the papers mentioned in this podcast below: (2017) “Handgun Acquisitions in California After Two Mass Shootings” - https://law.stanford.edu/publications/handgun-acquisitions-in-california-after-two-mass-shootings/ (2010) "Relationship between vehicle emissions laws and incidence of suicide by motor vehicle exhaust gas in Australia, 2001-06: an ecological analysis" - https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000210

(1991) "Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients — Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I" - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199102073240604.

My top papers are… Rachid Salmi on escaping tigers, a bridge of death and child head trauma

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 08:48:00 +0000

The papers that helped shape a career in Injury Prevention. In the first podcast of this series, Rod McClure, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, talks to Rachid Salmi, Professor of Public Health at the Université de Bordeaux, who pursued a research topic that was "under recognised" in the 1970s. Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month. More about the papers mentioned in this podcast below: “On the escape of tigers: an ecologic note”, W Haddon, Jr - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1349282 “Motor vehicle related injury on the bridges between Montreal and the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River, 1978-1982”, B P Brown, L R Salmi, S Lecours, and R N Battista - https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.75.8.871

“Simulation of the Impact of Programs for Prevention and Screening of Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma”, M Bailhache, A Bénard, L R Salmi - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26566679

Structural housing elements associated with home injuries in children

Wed, 18 May 2016 15:30:00 +0100

In this podcast Dr Brian Johnston talks to Wendy Shields and Eileen McDonald co-authors of the paper "Structural housing elements associated with home injuries in children".

Full paper >>http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/22/2/105.full

Spatial analysis of paediatric swimming pool submersions by housing type

Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:30:00 +0100

Drowning is a major cause of unintentional childhood death. Along with colleagues, Rohit P Shenoi, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Texas, investigated the relationship between childhood swimming pool submersions, neighbourhood sociodemographics, housing type and swimming pool location was examined in Harris County, Texas. He tells Brian Johnston what they found.

Read the paper, for free: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/4/245.full

Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension

Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:35:00 +0100

William Haddon Jr developed his conceptual model, the Haddon matrix, by applying basic principles of public health to the problem of traffic safety. In 1998, Carol Runyan expanded on his work with the seminal paper “Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension” that expanded on the matrix and its utility by adding a decision-making dimension based on principles of policy analysis. This paper made an important contribution to the injury prevention field as it provided straightforward and useful guidance on how to apply and use an already familiar tool to better support evidence-based decision-making. In this podcast, Dr Runyan, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, and J Morag MacKay, European Child Safety Alliance discuss the impact of the work and, given the current challenges decision makers face in translating research into action, how this framework remains relevant today. Read the papers: Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/2/126.full

Research and practice in a multidimensional world: a commentary on the contribution of the third dimension of the Haddon matrix to injury prevention http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/2/131.full

Looking back at building the evidence base for safe and active bicycling

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:18:00 +0000

As Injury Prevention turns 20 we're taking a look back at some of the most influential papers we've published in our Anniversary Archives, starting with Fred Rivara et al's “Epidemiology of bicycle injuries and risk factors for serious injury”. Using data from their seminal case–control study on bicycle helmet effectiveness, the study reported on crash circumstances, helmet use and injury outcomes to identify prevention opportunities. This study was part of a broader intellectual effort to engage rigorous epidemiological science in the gritty real-world work of injury prevention: identifying modifiable crash risk factors, measuring helmet effectiveness and putting this knowledge to work in a large controlled community campaign. Here Brian Johnston talks to Fred Rivara, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, and commentators Beth Ebel, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, and Brent Hagel, Department of Paediatrics, University of Calgary. Read the papers: Epidemiology of bicycle injuries and risk factors for serious injury http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/1/47.full Building the evidence base for safe and active bicycling: an historical commentary on Rivara et al: epidemiology of bicycle injuries and risk factors for serious injury

http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/1/52.full

The health care burden of illicit synthetic drug use

Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:53:00 +0000

The Minnesota Department of Health conducted an exploratory epidemiologic investigation into the health care burden of illicit synthetic drug (ISD) use in Duluth, Minnesota. Staff reviewed medical records of 78 patients with suspected ISD use who were treated in emergency departments at two Duluth-area hospitals from January through September 2013. The analysis showed use of ISDs has the potential to create a significant burden on the health care system and public services, and that effective prevention and response strategies need to be developed. In this podcast, study authors Mark Kinde, Unit Leader for the Injury and Violence Prevention Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, Ruth Lynfield, State Epidemiologist and Medical Director for the Minnesota Department of Health, and Sarah Dugan, Research Analyst, Injury and Violence Prevention Unit, Minnesota Department of Health, discuss the work and its findings. Read the full paper here:

http://www.minnesotamedicine.com/Portals/mnmed/February%202014/Clinical_Dugan_0214.pdf

Patterns of vulnerability to non-fatal injuries in Sudan

Wed, 05 Nov 2014 12:16:00 +0000

Successful injury prevention requires identification and targeting of particularly vulnerable groups, but little is known about injury vulnerability patterns in Sudan. Safa Abdalla, Sudanese Public Health Consultancy Group, aimed to fill this gap using survey data, and here Brian Johnston asks her what she found. Read the full paper:

http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/20/5/310.full

Threat of paediatric hyperthermia in an enclosed vehicle

Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:40:00 +0100

In the USA, 384 children died due to hyperthermia between 2003 and 2012 while unattended in an enclosed vehicle. Paediatric vehicular hyperthermia persists as a highly preventable form of heat-related death. A study recently published in IP has described temperature change throughout the workday in an enclosed vehicle in Austin, Texas across the calendar year, to examine the risk of hyperthermia to children trapped in vehicles. Brian Johnston talks to lead author, Sarah V Duzinski, Trauma Services, Dell Children's Medical Center, Austin, Texas. Read the paper in full, for free:

http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/20/4/220.full

The Sports Injury Registry

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:08:00 +0100

This podcast focuses on the collection of high school athlete sports injury data by the University of South Florida Sports Medicine and Athletic Related Trauma Institute (SMART). SMART developed an injury surveillance tool to collect detailed sports injury risk factor and outcome data for high school athletes in west central Florida beginning in 2007. Since 2012 SMART has joined the Reporting Information Online (RIO) network for high school athletes’ sports injury data collection. The lead researcher for the SMART injury surveillance research is Dr Karen Liller, Professor and AAAS Fellow in the University of South Florida College of Public Health. The Director of SMART is Dr Barbara Morris. Together they provide information on the origins of SMART, the data collection process, latest results, and plans for the future in this podcast. About the presenters: Dr. Karen Liller is a professor and AAAS Fellow in the University of South Florida College of Public Health. Her teaching, research, and service activities largely focus on public health and the prevention and control of children's unintentional injuries, most recently those related to sports. In 2012 Dr Liller was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and has been named one of the top 15 women scholars in health education and health promotion. She is the editor of the injury text, "Injury Prevention for Children and Adolescents: Research, Practice, and Advocacy," published by the American Public Health Association. Dr Barbara Morris, Director of SMART, is also a certified athletic trainer and a certified strength and conditioning specialist. She was named the 2008 Professional Outreach Athletic Trainer of the Year by the Athletic Trainer’s Association of Florida and has worked extensively in sports medicine clinical settings, including athletic training outreach, industrial rehabilitation and administration. Dr Morris has a faculty appointment in USF’s Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine where she teaches in the Athletic Training Education Program.

Analysis of the quantity and quality of published RCTs related to injury prevention in China

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 10:04:00 +0100

Brian Johnston talks to Guoqing Hu, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, China, about what his analysis of injury prevention research published in China between 2001 and 2010 reveals.

Read the full paper (for free) http://goo.gl/bNZz51

Preventing deaths and injuries from house fires

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:54:00 +0000

Brian Johnston, IP Editor in Chief, talks to Gregory Istre and Mary McCoy, Injury Prevention Center of Greater Dallas, about their latest research into the impact of community-based smoke alarm distribution programmes on the occurrence of house fire-related deaths and injuries.

Read the full research: http://goo.gl/mg7JCa

Sports concussion: Issues and controversies

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:01:00 +0000

Sports concussion, especially among youth, has become a topic of major interest to parents, athletes, coaches and physicians. While much is known about the topic, there is a great deal that is not known, especially about concussions in children.

Dr Fred Rivara, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington discusses some of the current issues and controversies.

A year on from Sandy Hook: Why is US funding for research on gun violence still being blocked?

Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:16:00 +0000

December 14, 2013, is the one year anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newton, Connecticut, USA, in which 20 young children were massacred. Dr Fred Rivara, professor of pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, discusses the need for research on gun violence, and the reasons that funding for this has been blocked in the US for almost two decades.

The Institute of Medicine report, Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence, is available here: bit.ly/1e9UMvj

IP podcast - Economic Disparity And Childhood Mortality Due To Injury In Europe

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:38:00 +0000

Read the full research online: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/19/5/311

Brian Johnston, IP editor, talks to Mathilde Sengoelge from the Department of Public Health Sciences, at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. They discuss the Editor's choice manuscript, Country-level economic disparity and child mortality related to housing and injuries: a study in 26 European countries

Acute occupational injury among adolescent farmworkers from South Texas

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:04:00 +0100

Brian Johnston, IP Editor in Chief, talks to Eva Shipp, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Rural Public Health in Texas, about her latest research into injury rates amongst adolescent, migrant farmworkers in Starr county, South Texas.

Read the full research : http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/19/4/264.full

Greening vacant lots reduces violent injury

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:11:00 +0100

In Philadelphia, the local authority has undertaken a project to green vacant lots, with the aim of improving the city.

Research by Charles Branas, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, has shown that not only did this have the desired aesthetic effect, it also lead to a reduction in violent crime in those areas.

He joins Brian Johnston, IP's editor in chief, to discuss his work.

Read the full research: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/19/3/198

Risk and protective behaviours for residential carbon monoxide poisoning

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:09:00 +0100

Unintentional, non-fire-related carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of poisoning death and injury in the USA. Most residential poisonings are preventable, so how to get people to adopt these protective behaviours?

IP editor Brian Johnston talks to Douglas Rupert, Health Communication Program, RTI International, and Scott Damon, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about what their research looking at the question revealed.

See also:

Risk and protective behaviours for residential carbon monoxide poisoning http://bit.ly/12FjyeH

Data sharing for prevention

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:08:00 +0100

Can emergency department data sharing help prevent violence and alcohol-related harm? Editor Brain Johnston talks to Karen Hughes (behavioural epidemiologist, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University) about the way data is integration into multi-agency policy and practice in the North West of England, and the role this played in driving local violence prevention activity.

See also:

Data sharing for prevention: a case study in the development of a comprehensive emergency department injury surveillance system and its use in preventing violence and alcohol-related harms http://bit.ly/14MiFV7

Barriers to implementing falls prevention programmes in senior centres

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:07:00 +0100

IP editor Brian Johnston talks to Ciara Zachary (postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Health Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University) about her study looking at barriers to implementing falls prevention programmes in senior centres.

See also:

Barriers to senior centre implementation of falls prevention programmes http://bit.ly/XmpJ4k

Inequality and injury prevention policy

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:05:00 +0100

Tackling inequality in health is an important part of the public policy agenda in many countries; however, many interventions that could improve overall health might also increase inequality.

Robert Lu (Institute of Public Health, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) has been tracking mortality from road traffic injuries after a mandatory motorcycle helmet law was introduced in Taiwan, and editor Brian Johnston asks him how this varied regionally and over time.

See also:

Reducing regional inequality in mortality from road traffic injuries through enforcement of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law in Taiwan http://bit.ly/ZMyPFj

Mental models

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:04:00 +0100

Editor Brian Johnston talks to Laurel Austin (professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School) about using mental models to help prevent injuries and communicate risk.

See also:

Injury prevention and risk communication: a mental models approach http://bit.ly/15EaYzY

It was a freak accident

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:03:00 +0100

Brian Johnston, IP editor, talks to Katherine Smith, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about her recent study examining the use by the US media of the expression ‘freak accident’ in relation to injury events.

See also:

‘It was a freak accident’: an analysis of the labelling of injury events in the US press http://bit.ly/10wxFVI

Triangulating case-finding tools for patient safety surveillence

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:02:00 +0100

Brian Johnston, Injury Prevention’s editor, talks to Jennifer Taylor from the Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, about this month’s editor’s choice.

Read the article online:

Triangulating case-finding tools for patient safety surveillance: a cross-sectional case study of puncture/laceration http://bit.ly/17NCd7w

Preventing bath water scalds

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:01:00 +0100

Thermostatic mixer valves - which keep water delivered to the bath below a maximum temperature - can prevent scalds. But would adding them to new build houses and those undergoing a change in use be cost-effective?

Ceri Phillips (Swansea University, UK) talks to IP editor Brian Johnston about what his study in Scotland revealed.

See also:

Preventing bath water scalds: a cost-effectiveness analysis of introducing bath thermostatic mixer valves in social housing http://bit.ly/13VzgoT

Under five injury in the million deaths study

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +0100

Brian Johnston, Injury Prevention’s editor, talks to Jagnoor Jagnoor from the George Institute in Australia about this month’s editor’s choice.

India’s million deaths study used cross sectional verbal autopsies to take a snapshot of the main causes of deaths in India - data which are otherwise poorly reported. Jagnoor and colleagues used these data to examine cause of death due to injury in children under five, the results of which are published in Injury Prevention this month.

See also:

Unintentional injury deaths among children younger than 5 years of age in India: a nationally representative study http://bit.ly/17NBxPm

Cycle tracks versus the street

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:59:00 +0100

Although most people prefer to bicycle on facilities separated from motor traffic, as with cycle tracks, guidance in the USA has suggested that these separated facilities are more dangerous than bicycling on the road. Brian Johnston (IP editor-in-chief) asks Anne Lusk (Harvard School of Public Health) what research on this reveals.

Read the brief report online: http://tinyurl.com/ot45bo7

Improving child safety in motor vehicles - a safe communities approach

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:57:00 +0100

This month’s editor’s choice reports success in using the World Health Organisation safe communities model approach to increase child restraint in motor vehicles. Brian Johnston asks lead author Greg Istre, from the Injury Prevention Center of Greater Dallas, USA, about what they achieved and the value and difficulties of the approach.

See also:

A controlled evaluation of the WHO Safe Communities model approach to injury prevention: increasing child restraint use in motor vehicles http://bit.ly/XTLgmb

Agricultural injuries

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:56:00 +0100

In this month’s podcast, IP editor Brian Johnston talks to one of the authors on this month’s editor’s choice, Will Pickett, from the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. They discuss his work using a novel method of investigating agricultural injury in Canadian farmers.

See also:

Determinants of agricultural injury: a novel application of population health theory http://bit.ly/17NAxLj

Cultural translation

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:55:00 +0100

In this month’s podcast, IP editor Brian Johnston talks to Flaura Winston, University of Pennsylvania and Joan Ozanne-Smith, Monash University. They discuss their research into the efficacy and acceptability of an injury prevention intervention, designed for the USA, but implemented in China.

See also:

Cultural translation: acceptability and efficacy of a US-based injury prevention intervention in China http://bit.ly/11hp3NM

Firearms regulation and male suicide in Quebec

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:54:00 +0100

Brian Johnston, IP’s editor, talks to Mathieu Gagne, The Institut national de santé publique du Québec, about the effect firearms regulation introduced in 1991 has had on the rate of method-specific male suicide in the Canadian province.

See also:

Firearms regulation and declining rates of male suicide in Quebec http://bit.ly/11hp3NM

Reporting on road traffic injury in Ghanaian newspapers

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:53:00 +0100

Brian Johnston, IP’s editor, talks to Isaac Kofi Yankson from the CSIR-Building and Road Research Institute, Ghana, and Beth E Ebel from the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, about their look how road traffic injury and injury prevention were reported in Ghanaian newspapers.

Behavioural science in injury prevention

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:52:00 +0100

Brian Johnston, IP’s editor, talks to Flaura Winston, an associate editor with IP, about applying best practice in behavioural science to injury prevention. See also: A practical approach for applying best practices in behavioural interventions to injury prevention http://bit.ly/15F4f8H

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Reporting at Safety 2022: all shades of Injury Prevention represented

Leadership in injury prevention, with Professor Fred Rivara

Collaboration in Injury Prevention, with Pamela Fuselli

Professor David Hemenway: a public health career in ”a brand new field”, and five books

Research at the interface, with Professor Flaura Winston, paediatrician

“If you don’t have a mentor, go and get them!”, Dr Mark Rosenberg’s 40 years in Injury Prevention

Handguns, structural racism, and an intersectional framework: 3 student papers

Growing ​”a broad field​”​: research and practice​. The SAVIR conference

From Canada to Sweden. Effective roadside barriers, plus electric cars: opportunities vs safety cost

Changing the perception: diversity and representation within academic Injury Prevention

”I like being a big fish in a small pond”, an epidemiologist in an unconventional field

How to produce meaningful research and how to translate it into practice?

Helmet type, road safety, covid-19 lockdowns. An oromaxillofacial surgeon preventing injuries in KL

Violence epidemiology with Dr Katelyn Jetelina

Data Science: new approaches and applications to injury prevention

A surprising path to the Global Road Safety Partnership

AI and big data in injury prevention

Preventing occupational injury in Indigenous and First Nations people

Night-time subsidised rideshares and prevention of road traffic injuries

Involving public and politicians in Injury Prevention

ICD-10-CM Injury Epidemiology and Surveillance Methods

Quality data and public policy: understanding the causes of causes

Cycling: testing the concept of “Safety in Density” in artificial societies

A public health issue and the practice-based knowledge

Lessons from Emeritus Professor Barry Pless, founding editor

Bringing clinical practice into injury prevention research

Digging deeper into the heterogeneity of injuries

Understanding your market for effective injury prevention

Opioids, road safety, and the effectiveness of public policy as an injury prevention tool

Nationwide public health responses: what can we learn from COVID-19 to prevent injury

Engineering health and sustainable mobility in the post-COVID-19 era

Dr Margie Peden - from nursing and clinical practice to global health

Road crash injury risks: dangerous vehicles and gender disparities

Overcoming the fragmentation of the injury prevention field

What is Injury Surveillance?

Road safety and violence prevention - interview with Dr Andres Villaveces

Violence and Injury Research - why does it matter?

A vision of safer cities

Abe Bergman, paediatrician with a lifetime in injury prevention… and many stories

Firearms injury as a public health problem in the US: origins and challenges

Safe spaces for children to be active

Redesigning traffic for people and the environment. Professor Ian Roberts on his shift to prevention

Mark Stevenson on mobile phones, big data and a new era in Injury Prevention

“Injury Prevention was an accident”. Putting injury in the national agenda in India

Road safety and communication. Why Professor Martha Híjar chose research over public service

Poverty and children’s burn injury. How common citizens help shape Injury Prevention in South Africa

Injury and violence: achieving population level change

Firearms injury. Professor David Studdert on mass shootings, health law and changing careers

My top papers are… Rachid Salmi on escaping tigers, a bridge of death and child head trauma

Structural housing elements associated with home injuries in children

Spatial analysis of paediatric swimming pool submersions by housing type

Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension

Looking back at building the evidence base for safe and active bicycling

The health care burden of illicit synthetic drug use

Patterns of vulnerability to non-fatal injuries in Sudan

Threat of paediatric hyperthermia in an enclosed vehicle

The Sports Injury Registry

Analysis of the quantity and quality of published RCTs related to injury prevention in China

Preventing deaths and injuries from house fires

Sports concussion: Issues and controversies

A year on from Sandy Hook: Why is US funding for research on gun violence still being blocked?

IP podcast - Economic Disparity And Childhood Mortality Due To Injury In Europe

Acute occupational injury among adolescent farmworkers from South Texas

Greening vacant lots reduces violent injury

Risk and protective behaviours for residential carbon monoxide poisoning

Data sharing for prevention

Barriers to implementing falls prevention programmes in senior centres

Inequality and injury prevention policy

Mental models

It was a freak accident

Triangulating case-finding tools for patient safety surveillence

Preventing bath water scalds

Under five injury in the million deaths study

Cycle tracks versus the street

Improving child safety in motor vehicles - a safe communities approach

Agricultural injuries

Cultural translation

Firearms regulation and male suicide in Quebec

Reporting on road traffic injury in Ghanaian newspapers

Growing ”a broad field”: research and practice. The SAVIR conference