Injury Research and Prevention: A Text

Occupational injury prevention research: progress and priorities.

The twentieth century witnessed remarkable reductions in the number and rate of occupational fatalities and injuries. However, many preventable injuries and deaths still occur. Barriers to progress in occupational injury prevention are discussed, along with strategies for overcoming them. In mining, the frequency of death has dramatically declined over the century. The latest figures from the B...

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New Zealand's Injury Prevention Research Unit: helping shape injury prevention policy and practice.

Beginnings The Injury Prevention Research (IPRU) was founded in 1990, as the result of a successful bid to establish New Zealand’s first centre for injury prevention research. The need for such a centre was identified in a review of research on unintentional injury prepared for the then Medical Research Council of New Zealand. The authors of that review argued that an analysis of national data ...

Occupational Injury Prevention Research in NIOSH

This paper provided a brief summary of the current strategic goals, activities, and impacts of the NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) occupational injury research program. Three primary drivers (injury database, stakeholder input, and staff capacity) were used to define NIOSH research focuses to maximize relevance and impact of the NIOSH injury-prevention-research pro...

Much more research needed on injury prevention.