To reflect on the role of risk-taking and risky play in child development and consider recommendations for the injury prevention field, a symposium was held prior to the November 2013 Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference. Delegates heard from Canadian and international researchers, practitioners and play safety experts on child development, play space design and playground...

Injury prevention and control remains a key priority in public health and medicine. Across all age groups and regardless of the measure used, injury is a leading cause of morbidity and death with tremendous costs to society. When considering the burden and scope of injuries, in the United States (U.S.) and elsewhere, injury prevention remains an important but under-resourced health concern. Som...

OBJECTIVES This paper sought to identify the behaviour change targets for an injury prevention program; Skills for Preventing Injury in Youth (SPIY). The aim was to explore how such behaviours could subsequently be implemented and evaluated in the program. METHODS AND DESIGN The quantitative procedure involved a survey with 267 Year 8 and 9 students (mean age 13.23 years) regarding their enga...

Youth have very high participation rates in sport, and sport is the leading cause of youth injury in many countries. Canadian studies report that 30–40% of youth (ages 11–18 years) seek medical attention for a sport injury annually. 7 While physical activity prevents all-cause morbidity associated with a sedentary lifestyle, injuries can become a barrier to physical activity. Injury prevention ...

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...

It was so encouraging to read the Editor's Choice, "The Solution Is Injury Prevention," in the April 2004 issue of the Journal. Those of us working to prevent injuries often encounter the erroneous sentiment Benjamin so eloquently challenges-that injuries are just accidents and do not represent a critical public health problem. Injuries result in more deaths than all other causes combined for p...

The new Electronic IIPP Program will launch on December 11, 2017. DSCs will begin receiving email invitations to complete their IIPPs on behalf of their department beginning December 11, 2017. If you are a DSC in charge of implementing and maintaining your IIPP and have any questions about the new Electronic IIPP Program, please contact [email protected] [1] for more information. After successfu...