Injury prevention and the attainment of child and adolescent health.

Traditional public health injury control does not apply to violence.

Ecological level analysis of the relationship between smoking and residential-fire mortality.

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between tobacco smoking and residential-fire mortality and to investigate whether this association is explained by the confounding effects of selected socioeconomic factors (ie, educational attainment and median household income). DESIGN An ecological analysis relating state-level residential-fire mortality to state-level percentages of adults who smoke w...

Falls from heights: a childhood epidemic in an urban area. 1971.

Dr Bergner, Assistant Commissioner for Research and Professional Training; Dr Mayer, Director, Bureau of Child Health; and Dr Harris, Deputy Commissioner, City Health Department (125 Worth Street), New York, NY 10013. This paper was presented before the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association at the Ninety Seventh Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, November ...

The Relationship between Mother-Child Interaction and Mental Health of Adolescent Girls: The Mediating Role of Religious Identity

Introduction: Mental health of adolescent girls as future mothers is of great importance. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of religious identity in the relationship between mother-child interaction and mental health of adolescent girls in Yazd, Iran. Method: This study was conducted on 319 female students, studying at the tenth to twelfth grades of high schools i...

Speed cameras under attack in the United Kingdom.

T his commentary examines the current campaign against speed cameras in the United Kingdom. It reveals how a health intervention, even when shown to be effective at reducing deaths and injuries, can be subject to sustained attacks from highly organised antihealth forces. It calls for concerted action among health professionals to respond to the increasingly vocal motorist lobby groups. Health p...