SafetyLit: Injury Prevention Literature
Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for current and past scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention.
Injuries have causes -- they don't simply befall us from fate or bad luck.
To prevent injuries it is necessary to have information about the factors that contribute to their occurrence. With this information we may understand the options for prevention. Effective injury prevention requires a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach. Information about injury occurrence and prevention is available from many sources. The weekly SafetyLit Update Bulletin provides abstracts of
English language reports from researchers who work in the more than 30 professional disciplines
relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm.
SafetyLit staff and volunteers regularly examine more than 4600 scholarly journals from many nations. We also review conference proceedings and reports from government agencies and organizations. SafetyLit summaries are drawn from anthropology, economics, education, engineering specialties, ergonomics, law and law enforcement, medicine, physiology, psychology, public health, public safety, nursing, social work, traffic safety, and other fields. This information is maintained in a searchable archive that contains more than 100 thousand items.
The primary purpose of SafetyLit is to provide information about articles from scholarly peer reviewed journals and selected reports from government agencies, university-based research centers, and professional organizations. We recognize that other types of information about injury prevention and safety promotion may be useful. Thus, we maintain a series of links pages to facilitate your connection to the Web sites of several thousand agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
