Injury Prevention articles from June 2003

Injury Prevention archives from June 2003

Guest editorials, commentaries, challenges, and accomplishments. (Editorial).(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... Editorial musings As the focus of the journal continues to expand, we have enlisted many experts to our board and family of reviewers. With this issue we welcome three new board members, Denise Kendrick, Mark Stevenson and Nancy Peck, and...

Amateur umpire held liable for injuries. (Lacunae).
June 1, 2003... A High Court ruling in England holding a referee responsible for a player's injuries has highlighted the liability risks faced by sporting officials everywhere. The court found the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) was liable when an amateur player was...

Can we afford to exercise, give current injury rates? Fatalities could be reduced through application of our current knowledge. (Guest Editorial).(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... A lack of adequate and regular physical activity is now recognised as a major factor contributing to many forms of chronic disease, (1-3) and public health agencies around the world are eager to encourage the general population to become more...

Sports and recreational injury: the hidden cost of a healthy lifestyle; more exercise will mean less obesity related disease, but exercise related injuries may negate the gain. (Guest Editorial).(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... Sport and recreational physical activity is an integral part of our society and participation in recreational physical activity is widely promoted as part of a healthy lifestyle. However, recent studies, such as the paper by Conn et al in this...

Searching the medical literature: practice makes perfect. (Commentary).
June 1, 2003... Searching the medical literature for information can be quite confusing without a basic understanding of how the literature is organized or in. dexed, and without guidance about how the most popular search systems work. In this commentary, I...

Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research. (People in the News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Dr Louis Hugo Francescutti, Director of the Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research, has been named Campus Dean for NOMS-West, the site of the Northern Ontario Medical School (NOMS) based at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada. He...

France's national standardization institute. (People in the News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Alan Bryden, formerly Director General of France's national standardization institute, AFNOR, has been appointed Secretary-General of ISO (International Organization for Standardization). His appointment comes at a point when international...

News and notes rapid responses.(various articles on injury statistics and prevention)
June 1, 2003... It is now possible to submit a rapid response to a "news and notes" item, just as it is to a paper in the online version of Injury Prevention. You can use the facility to comment on the news items or submit new contributions for inclusion. ...

Board member biography.(Nancy Stout)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Nancy Stout, EdD Dr Stout is Director of the Division of Safety Rescarch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. She joined NIOSH in 1985 and has held various scientific and managerial positions with the NIOSH Division of...

Review of evaluations of educational approaches to promote safe storage of firearms. (Systematic Review).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To systematically review evaluation studies of educational interventions promoting safe firearm storage. Methods: Medline, ERIC, PsyclNFO, Criminal Justice Periodicals Index, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health...

Evaluation of Safe Kids Week 2001: prevention of scald and burn injuries in young children. (Program Evaluation).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To evaluate Safe Kids Week 2001 -- a national public awareness campaign on scald and burn prevention--run by Safe Kids Canada. Design: Random digit dial telephone survey. Setting: Canada. Subjects: Parents or guardians...

Sports and recreation related injury episodes in the US population, 1997-99. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To characterize sports and recreation related (SR) injury episodes in the US population. SR activities are growing in popularity suggesting the need for increased awareness of SR injuries as a public health concern For physically...

Lacunae.(various abstracts on traffic safety)(Author Abstract)
June 1, 2003... Super Bowl risks A letter in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that there is a 41% greater chance of a car crash in the four hours after the Super Bowl game in the US than at any other time... including new year. Although,...

Productivity losses from injury in China. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To examine the productivity losses and costs of injury and disease in China using an improved approach. Methods: Potentially productive years of life lost (PPYLL) were calculated for injury and four major disease groups...

Risk compensation theory and voluntary helmet use by cyclists in Spain. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To obtain empirical data that might support or refuse the existence of a risk compensation mechanism in connection with voluntary helmet use by Spanish cyclists. Design: A retrospective case series. Setting: Spain, from 1990...

Observational study of the extent of driving while suspended for alcohol impaired driving. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To determine the proportion of first time driving while alcohol impaired (DWI] offenders who drive while their driver's license is suspended. Design: Systematic, unobtrusive observations were conducted by surveillance...

A randomised trial of hip protector use by frail older women living in their own homes. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Objectives: To investigate the efficacy and effectiveness of hip protectors in frail community living older women. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Aged care health services in New South Wales, Australia. Patients: 600...

Persistence of effects of a brief intervention on parental restrictions of teen driving privileges. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which effects of exposure to a brief intervention designed to increase parental restrictions on teen driving privileges persisted over time. Design: A total of 658 parents...

Buying a handgun for someone else: firearm dealer willingness to sell. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To examine firearm dealer willingness to sell when a handgun is being purchased for another person. US law requires a background check of the purchaser but not the end user of a firearm. Subjects and methods: A total of 120...

Impact of handgun types on gun assault outcomes: a comparison of gun assaults involving semiautomatic pistols and revolvers. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To examine whether gun assaults committed with semiautomatic pistols are more injurious and lethal than those committed with revolvers. Setting: Jersey City, New Jersey from 1992 through 1996. Methods: Using police records...

A new approach to the analysis of multiple injuries using data from a national trauma registry. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To present a new systematic approach for summarizing multiple injury diagnosis data into patient injury profiles. Design: International Classification of Diseases, ninth revision, clinical modification injury diagnosis codes were...

Damaging documents expose industry evasion over fire safe cigarettes. (Echo).(Author Abstract)
June 1, 2003... Up to 1000 deaths a year from cigarette fires in the Unites States might have been prevented, but for the tobacco industry's covert opposition to legislation on safe cigarettes over the past 25 years, research on internal company documents has...

Characteristics of drowning by different age groups. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Context: While it is known that the risk of unintentional drowning varies with age, the manner in which drowning episode characteristics vary by age has not been well described. Such information might be useful for prevention. Objective:...

Lacunae.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Alcohol taxation and teenage drinking A substantial rise in drinking by young people in Australia is being associated with the rise in alcoholic drinks that taste like soft drinks and with tax changes that have made these drinks cheaper. In...

Car seatbelt use during pregnancy in Japan: determinants and policy implications. (Original Article).
June 1, 2003... Context: Pregnant women are exempted from the current seatbelt legislation in Japan despite the fact that seatbelt use is essential to reduce the risk of fatalities for these women and their fetuses in car crashes. Objective: To examine...

Differential ranking of causes of fatal versus non-fatal injuries among US children. (Brief Report).
June 1, 2003... Objective: Leading causes of fatal and non-fatal injury among US children aged Method: A descriptive study was conducted using nationally representative data on injury related deaths (National Vital Statistics System) and on non-fatal...

Children's bicycle helmet use and injuries in Hillsborough County, Florida before and after helmet legislation. (Brief Report).
June 1, 2003... The purpose of this research was to explore the changes in children's bicycle helmet use and motor vehicle bicycle related injuries in Hillsborough County, Florida before and after passage of the Florida's bicycle helmet law for children under...

Validation of a home safety questionnaire used in a randomised controlled trial. (Methodologic Issues).
June 1, 2003... Objective: To measure the validity of self reported safety practices from a questionnaire, completed by families participating in a home safety randomised controlled trial. Methods: The postal questionnaire was used to measure secondary...

Routine narrative analysis as a screening tool to improve data quality. (Methodologic Issues).
June 1, 2003... Aim: To determine whether narrative information in emergency department surveillance systems can be systematically interrogated to improve our understanding of the causes of injury. Methods: Screening algorithms for location, intent, and...

Violent attacks on Middle Easterners in the United States during the month following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. (Special Feature).
June 1, 2003... Objectives: To document and describe hate related violent attacks on Middle Easterners or those perceived to be Middle Easterners during the month following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, DC. ...

Evaluation in Health Promotion: Principles and Perspectives. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Edited by I Rootman, M Goodstadt, B Hyndman, D McQueen, L Patvin, J Springett, E Ziglio. (Pp 533.) WHO Regional Publications, European Series, No 92. Denmark: World Health Organization, 2001. ISBN 92-890-1359-1. Evaluation continues to...

Driving Lessons: Exploring Systems That Make Traffic Safer. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Edited by J P Rothe. (Pp 343.) University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2002. ISBN 0-88864-370-5. This book arose from the multidisciplinary "Mission Possible Traffic-Safety Conference, Taffic Safety Summit '98". The aim of the conference...

Calendar.(injury prevention conference)(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... XXII Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention 10-14 September 2003, Stockholm. Details: Congress Secretariat, tel +4685465 15 00; fax +468 5465 15 99; email iasp2003@stocon.se. 19th International Traffic...

Splinters & Fragments.(various abstracts on sports injuries, burns, child safety, and suicide)(Author Abstract)
June 1, 2003... Doctors and nurses are trained not to run up the stairs when responding to a page in the hospital; arriving out of breath and with pulse racing does them, and the patients, little good. But ambulances do race, often both to and from the scene....