Citation

McClure RJ. Inj. Prev. 2019; 25(2): 75.

Affiliation

School of Rural Medicine, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia rmcclure@une.edu.au.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043199

PMID

30898892

Abstract

It is 70 years since John Gordon wrote ‘The epidemiology of accidents’ in the American Journal of Public Health and 55 years since Haddon W Jr and colleagues edited the text book ‘Accident Research: Methods and Approaches’ published by Harper and Row. Thirty years ago, the First World Conference on Accident and Injury Prevention was held in Stockholm. Twenty-five years ago, Injury Prevention published our first issue. In the modern form, injury prevention is no longer new. Does the field of injury prevention yet have the level of self-confidence required to step forward with purpose into the future?

I was at an international meeting recently where there was much reference to ‘the injury prevention community’. At this same meeting, there was also much discussion about how the injury prevention community needs to be more effective in influencing governments, institutions, industry, funders and members of the public to better support our community’s activities and goals. “If other people listened to us more and took our …

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