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Injury prevention

Year: 2020
Articles in SafetyLit: 91

'Gun shop projects' for suicide prevention in the USA: current state and future directions

Age, period and cohort effects in firearm homicide and suicide in the USA, 1983-2017

Alcohol and other drugs in suicide in Canada: opportunities to support prevention through enhanced monitoring

Applying a systems thinking lens to injury causation in the outdoors: evidence collected during 3 years of the Understanding and Preventing Led Outdoor Accidents Data System

Approaching autonomous driving with cautious optimism: analysis of road traffic injuries involving autonomous vehicles based on field test data

Armed and prohibited: characteristics of unlawful owners of legally purchased firearms

Assessing the impact of a local community subsidised rideshare programme on road traffic injuries: an evaluation of the Evesham Saving Lives programme

Assessment of home hazards for non-fatal childhood injuries in rural Nepal: a community survey

Assessment of the opportunities for increasing the availability of EU data on consumer product-related injuries

Association of designated open water swim area regulations and open water drowning rates

Average lost work productivity due to non-fatal injuries by type in the USA

Average medical cost of fatal and non-fatal injuries by type in the USA

BokSmart rugby safety education courses are associated with improvements in behavioural determinants in attending coaches and referees: presurvey-postsurvey study

Burden of injuries in Nepal, 1990-2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Burden of injuries in Vietnam: emerging trends from a decade of economic achievement

Burden of injury along the development spectrum: associations between the Socio-demographic Index and disability-adjusted life year estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Canadian doctors for protection from guns: how physicians contributed to policy change

Changes in intimate partner violence during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA

Child maltreatment surveillance following the ICD-10-CM transition, 2016-2018

Chronic medical conditions and their association with crash risk and changes in driving habits: a prospective study of the GAZEL cohort

Comparison of the characteristics of work-related injuries between older workers and the workers of the conventional working-age in the Republic of Korea, 2010-2014

Complex relationship between household wealth, location of residence, road crash injury incidence and injury severity in Uganda

Core competencies for injury prevention among public health students and an advocacy for curriculum development in the medical universities in China: a cross-sectional study

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

COVID-19 lockdown and fatal motor vehicle collisions due to speed-related traffic violations in Japan: a time-series study

Decade of fatal injuries in workers in New Zealand: insights from a comprehensive national observational study

Demographic changes in US trampoline-related injuries from 1998 to 2017: cause for alarm

Determinants, circumstances and consequences of injurious falls among older women living in the community

Determining child drowning mortality in the Sundarbans, India: applying the community knowledge approach

Effect of race on suspect injuries during encounters with police

Epidemiology of facial fractures: incidence, prevalence and years lived with disability estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study

Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study

Estimating the burden of road traffic crashes in Uganda using police and health sector data sources

Evaluating the impact of penalising the use of mobile phones while driving on road traffic fatalities, serious injuries and mobile phone use: a systematic review

Evaluation of the effectiveness, implementation and cost-effectiveness of the Stay One Step Ahead home safety promotion intervention for pre-school children: a study protocol

Facilitators and barriers to child restraint use in motor vehicles: a qualitative evidence synthesis

Facilitators, barriers and lessons learnt from the first state-wide naloxone distribution conducted in West Virginia

Falls in older aged adults in 22 European countries: incidence, mortality and burden of disease from 1990 to 2017

Fatalities related to intimate partner violence: towards a comprehensive perspective

Firearm access and adolescent suicide risk: toward a clearer understanding of effect size

Firearm ownership and perceived risk of personal firearm injury

Firearm purchasing and storage during the COVID-19 pandemic

Global injury morbidity and mortality from 1990 to 2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Home-related and work-related injuries in Makwanpur district, Nepal: a household survey

How does mode of travel affect risks posed to other road users? An analysis of English road fatality data, incorporating gender and road type

Identifying a gap in drowning prevention: high-risk populations

IMPACT and CRASH prognostic models for traumatic brain injury: external validation in a South-American cohort

Improving estimation of the association between alcohol use and intimate partner violence in low-income and middle-income countries

Incidence and characteristics of paediatric abusive head trauma in Taiwan, 2006-2015: a nationwide population-based study

Initial impact of COVID-19's stay-at-home order on motor vehicle traffic and crash patterns in Connecticut: an interrupted time series analysis

Injuries among all-terrain vehicle users: a population-based study

Keeping afloat: a case study tracing the emergence of drowning prevention as a health issue in Bangladesh 1999-2017

Lessons learned in conducting youth suicide prevention research in emergency departments

Medical student education for injury prevention: closing the gap

Mixed-methods process evaluation of SafeTea: a multimedia campaign to prevent hot drink scalds in young children and promote burn first aid

Morbidity and mortality from road injuries: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Motivations for firearm possession and storage practices among urban young adults: differences between parents and non-parents

Need for consistent beach lifeguard data collection: results from an international survey

Out of the silos: embedding injury prevention into the Sustainable Development Goals

Overcoming the limitations of 'accident' as a manner of death for drug overdose mortality: case for a death certificate checkbox

Patterns of gun owner beliefs about firearm risk in relation to firearm storage: a latent class analysis using the 2019 National Firearms Survey

Planning injury prevention training for youth handball players: application of the generalisable six-step intervention development process

Plight of the distracted pedestrian: a research synthesis and meta-analysis of mobile phone use on crossing behaviour

Potential survivability of prehospital injury deaths in New Zealand: a cross-sectional study

Pre-existing mental disorder, clinical profile, inpatient services and costs in people hospitalised following traumatic spinal injury: a whole population record linkage study

Prescription medication use as a risk factor for motor vehicle collisions: a responsibility study

Professional assessment of potential concussions in elite football tournaments

Ridesharing and motor vehicle crashes: a spatial ecological case-crossover study of trip-level data

Risk factors associated with driving under the influence of drugs in the USA

Risk factors for fatal drowning in a Greek region: a retrospective case-control study

Risky business: a 15-year analysis of fatal coastal drowning of young male adults in Australia

Selection bias and misclassification in case-control studies conducted using the National Violent Death Reporting System

Sex-specific and age-specific suicide mortality by method in 58 countries between 2000 and 2015

Socioeconomic inequality in the risk of intentional injuries among adolescents: a cross-sectional analysis of 89 countries

State Earned Income Tax Credit policies and intimate partner homicide in the USA, 1990-2016

State firearm laws, race and law enforcement-related deaths in 16 US states: 2010-2016

State-level teen dating violence education laws and teen dating violence victimisation in the USA: a cross-sectional analysis of 36 states

State-of-the-art review: preventing child and youth pedestrian motor vehicle collisions: critical issues and future directions

Systems change for suicide prevention among adolescents: a rural Wisconsin county approach

Terrain park feature compliance with Québec ski area safety recommendations

Testing the efficacy of a hospital-based violence intervention programme: protocol and design

The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study

The global burden of falls: global, regional and national estimates of morbidity and mortality from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Trends and disparities in American Indian/Alaska Native unintentional injury mortality from 1999 to 2016

Unintentional injuries in Mexico, 1990-2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Using Bluetooth beacon technology to reduce distracted pedestrian behaviour: a cross-over trial study protocol

Vacant lot to community garden conversion and crime in Milwaukee: a difference-in-differences analysis

Violence in Honduras from 2008 to 2018

Virtual car seat checks during a pandemic

Women, older age, faster cycling speed and increased wind speeds are independent risk factors for acute injury-related medical encounters during a 109 km mass community-based participation cycling event: a 3-year study in 102251 race starters-SAFER XII

Worth the risk? Gun carrying and perceived criminal justice responses in Baltimore