Citation

Garcia PJ. Inj. Prev. 2020; 26(Suppl 1): i1-i2.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043937

PMID

33004612

Abstract

The field of population health has benefited in recent years due to greater visibility in the popular domain as well as advances in the underlying data and methods. However, injury burden has not always received exposure and attention equitable to its global importance. This is surprising given the field of injury prevention is to some extent predicated on the principle that exposure to injury risk is universal. Injuries such as falls are widely relatable. Among people who have an injury from a fall, though, some may survive unscathed and some may develop permanent disability or die. The accompanying studies in this series on the global burden of injury are an effort to investigate and understand these trends across injuries on broader levels.

Injuries and their burden can be reduced with effective measures of prevention and treatment. However, more nuanced measurement of injury risk and burden is critical for adopting more widespread prevention and treatment measures. When it comes to rates of different injuries, questions such as why, how, where, what, when, and so on… are key questions that these series are addressing in order to improve our knowledge and inform our response...

Language: en

Keywords

epidemiology; global; burden of disease