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Injury prevention

Year: 2019
Articles in SafetyLit: 83

'Active & Safe Central': development of an online resource for the prevention of injury in sport and recreational activity

A marginal structural model approach to analyse work-related injuries: an example using data from the Health and Retirement Study

Ability of fitness testing to predict injury risk during initial tactical training: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Achieving engagement in injury and violence prevention research

Age-specific incidence of injury-related hospital contact after release from prison: a prospective data-linkage study

Alcohol outlets and firearm violence: a place-based case-control study using satellite imagery and machine learning

Building capacity for injury prevention: a process evaluation of a replication of the Cardiff Violence Prevention Programme in the Southeastern USA

Cannabis in homes with children: use and storage practices in a legalised state

Cataract surgery for falls prevention and improving vision: modelling the health gain, health system costs and cost-effectiveness in a high-income country

Characteristics of potential concussive events in three elite football tournaments

Child Housing Assessment for a Safe Environment (CHASE): a new tool for injury prevention inside the home

Comparison of manual and computer assigned injury severity scores

Comparison of revised Functional Capacity Index scores with Abbreviated Injury Scale 2008 scores in predicting 12-month severe trauma outcomes

Comparison of risk engagement and protection survey (REPS) among mothers and fathers of children aged 6-12 years

Crash characteristics of on-road single-bicycle crashes: an under-recognised problem

Crashes on cannabis celebration day

Current health status and history of traumatic brain injury among Ohio adults

Developing drowning prevention strategies for rivers through the use of a modified Delphi process

Differences in public support for handgun purchaser licensing

Distance to trauma centres among gunshot wound victims: identifying trauma 'deserts' and 'oases' in Detroit

Drowning mortality in children aged 0-14 years in Victoria, Australia: detailed epidemiological study 2001-2016

Drug overdose deaths at work, 2011-2016

Effect of a cognitive test at license renewal for older drivers on their crash risk in Japan

Effect of environmental conditions on injury rates at a Colorado ski resort

Effectiveness of a collaborative, student-run campaign to increase safety belt use among adolescents

Effects of city-wide 20 mph (30km/hour) speed limits on road injuries in Bristol, UK

Epidemiology of injuries from fire, heat and hot substances: global, regional and national morbidity and mortality estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study

Equity as the fourth 'E' in the '3 E's' approach to injury prevention

Evaluation of community coalition training effects on youth hospital-admitted injury incidence in Victoria, Australia: 2001-2017

Evaluation of text mining to reduce screening workload for injury-focused systematic reviews

Evaluation of the efficacy of a virtual reality-based safety training and human factors training method: study protocol for a randomised-controlled trial

Factors associated with civilian and police officer injury during 10 years of officer-involved shooting incidents

Factors related to road system organisation and its association with mortality due to motor vehicle-pedestrian collisions in Guadalajara Metropolitan Area

Fall-related deaths among older adults in British Columbia: cause and effect of policy change

Falls and Cognitive Training 2 (FaCT2) study protocol: a randomised controlled trial exploring cognitive training to reduce risk of falls in at-risk older adults

Feasibility of Safe-Tea: a parent-targeted intervention to prevent hot drink scalds in preschool children

Firearm assault injuries by residence and injury occurrence location

Firearm ownership and acquisition in California: findings from the 2018 California Safety and Well-being Survey

Firearm ownership in California: a latent class analysis

Forecasting global road traffic injury mortality for 2030

Hazardous children's products on the Australian and US market 2011-2017: an empirical analysis of child-related product safety recalls

Identifying sociodemographic risk factors associated with residential fire fatalities: a matched case control study

Impact of aging on the immune response to traumatic brain injury (AIm:TBI) study protocol

Impact of comorbidity on health outcome after a transport-related injury

Impacts of helmet law on the changes in potential years of life lost due to traffic injury: a multiple-province evaluation in Vietnam

Importance of firearms research

Income inequality and firearm homicide in the US: a county-level cohort study

Increasing adolescent firearm homicides and racial disparities following Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' self-defence law

Indicators for estimating trends in alcohol-related assault: evaluation using police data from Queensland, Australia

Injuries associated with electric-powered bikes and scooters: analysis of US consumer product data

Integrating complex systems science into road safety research and practice, Part 1: review of formative concepts

Integrating complex systems science into road safety research and practice, Part 2: applying systems tools to the problem of increasing pedestrian death rates

Lowering the speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph in Boston: effects on vehicle speeds

Marijuana exposures in Colorado, reported to regional poison centre, 2000-2018

Mortality and health-related quality of life following injuries and associated factors: a cohort study in Chandigarh, North India

Multifactorial falls prevention programmes for older adults presenting to the emergency department with a fall: systematic review and meta-analysis

Paediatric window falls and interannual temperature variability in the Seattle metro area

Physical environment and violence perpetration among male youth in Pittsburgh: a spatial analysis

Public health principles to inform testing and build trust in automated vehicles

Public interest in gun control in the USA

Recent trends in child and youth emergency department visits because of pedestrian motor vehicle collisions by socioeconomic status in Ontario, Canada

Reciprocal associations between depression, anxiety and work-related injury

Rethinking the public health model for injury prevention

Risk of hospital-treated injury in children with cerebral palsy: a population-based cohort study

Road safety risk factors for non-motorised vehicle users in a Chinese city: an observational study

Road user behaviour, attitudes and crashes: a survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia

Roles of individual differences and traffic environment factors on children's street-crossing behaviour in a VR environment

Safety at the edge: a safety framework to identify edge conditions in the future transportation system with highly automated vehicles

Safety seat and seat belt use among child motor vehicle occupants, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

SAVIR: going forward by looking back

Status of legal firearm possession and violent deaths: methods and protocol for a retrospective case-control study

The annual cannabis holiday and fatal traffic crashes

Trends in school-age pedestrian and pedalcyclist crashes in the USA: 26 states, 2000-2014

Trends in the drowning mortality rate in Iran

Trends in the wear of personal flotation devices (PFDs) in the UK 2009-2017

Trends of drowning mortality in Vietnam: evidence from the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System

Typhoon track change-based emergency shelter location-allocation model: a case study of Wenchang in Hainan province, China

Unintentional injury deaths among American Indian residents of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, 2006-2012

Unrecognised self-injury mortality (SIM) trends among racial/ethnic minorities and women in the USA

Use of mixed methods to investigate case definitions to improve the identification of serious injury cases from hospital episode data

User-driven design of child restraint information to reduce errors in use: a pilot randomised controlled trial

Using hospital discharge data for injury research or surveillance? An observational study illustrating the impact of administrative change

Using street imagery and crowdsourcing internet marketplaces to measure motorcycle helmet use in Bangkok, Thailand