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Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies

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This is the definitive book on the public health approach to injury prevention. It emphasizes the practical skills and strategies necessary to effectively plan, promote, implement, and operate public health injury prevention programs. It contains a thorough background in the magnitude of the problem of unintentional injury and violence and a fascinating review of the evolution of injury prevention ideas. Christoffel and Gallagher provide a detailed, practical approach to the identification and prioritization of problems; implementation of interventions; and assessment of success. Although well-grounded in science, social policy, and the reality of getting things done in a bureaucracy; this book is written in a style that makes it thoroughly enjoyable to read.

David Lawrence, Injury Preveniton Web

Injury Prevention and Public Health expands upon the current, in vitro, descriptions and analyses of the scientific causes and prevention of injury by showing tested dynamic public health preventive practices ,in vivo.

As a public health and safety researcher, practitioner, historian and archivist , in practice for over 35 years, I especially note the book's excellent chapters on historical timelines and reviews of the injury control field's landmarks. Few other injury control publications report work done more than during the last five years ( many times repeated in each decade ) nor comprehensively build upon any lessons learned of the past personalities, values and activities that can be currently applied to regulatory , legislative, educational and engineering safety. This new book begins that "quantum leap" from normatives for prevention into managing the real world of competing political personal, group and organizational values, interactions, and activities. The authors recognize that limited funding and manpower resources require essential leadership skills and arts to apply data efficiently and effectively so as to actually prevent or reduce a leading cause of death and disability, the injury.

Kudos to the authors whose own basic and applied research has contributed so much to the advancement of the discipline of injury prevention into public health practice. The new or seasoned researcher, practitioner, educator, legislator or attorney needs this new book.

This text is clear, informative and engaging. It is a worthwhile introduction to the field of injury prevention, suitable for a public health professional, graduate student or anyone interested in learning more about this field.