Citation

McClure RJ, Price A. Inj. Prev. 2018; 24(5): 321-322.

Affiliation

BMJ Publishing Group, London, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/injuryprev-2018-042966

PMID

30257986

Abstract

The practice of injury prevention requires that each of us, as citizens and members of the public whose absolute risk of serious injury is low and who believe we are at lower risk than our peers, complies with principles and processes that decrease the chance an unlikely event will ever occur. Berkeley might have had some trouble with that. Not so much Wittgenstein. Injury prevention is a fact, not a thing. Injury is a consequence of relationships between things, and its prevention is achieved by managing those relationships. Injury prevention is not something that can be implemented on people, but with people.

If injury prevention cannot be abstracted from the world in which it occurs, then neither can the science that supports it. Injury prevention research and practice exist not in the pages of a journal but in the world of the public citizen. The more the community is engaged in the work published in the …

Language: en

Keywords

Advocacy; Education; Public Health