Research priorities for injury prevention

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...

Priorities for pediatric injury prevention counseling.

Research and prevention priorities for alcohol carcinogenesis.

Research conducted during the last four decades has established that consumption of alcoholic beverages causes cancer. Etiologic research questions that remain relate to increases in risk at specific sites, the effects of various types of alcoholic beverages, the effect of various concentrations of alcohol, and the mechanism(s) of action, including possible interactions with other agents such a...

Top ten research priorities for spinal cord injury.

Top ten research priorities for spinal cord injury # Priority question 1 Does activity based rehabilitation, including functional electrical stimulation coupled with physical activity and hydrotherapy, improve outcomes such as muscle function and neuroplasticity after spinal cord injury? 2 Does stem cell therapy result in better outcomes after spinal cord injury and does this depend on the type...

Hynd 1 UPPER EXTREMITY INJURY STUDY: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INJURY PREVENTION PRIORITIES

A large-scale accident study of injuries in Phases four, five and six of the UK CCIS accident database showed that upper extremity injuries were increasing in frequency in frontal impacts, particularly when an airbag deployed. However, it was difficult to identify injury mechanisms and costs from the information in the database. Therefore, an in-depth case-by-case study of upper extremity injur...