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Injury Research : Theories, Methods, and Approaches by Margaret Warner PhD, Li-Hui Chen PhD (auth.), Guohua Li, Susan P. Baker (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 succe

Who reads Injury Research : Theories, Methods, and Approaches?

Author

Margaret Warner PhD, Li-Hui Chen PhD (auth.), Guohua Li, Susan P. Baker (eds.)

Publisher

Springer US : Imprint : Springer

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461415985

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine