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Shannon Frattaroli
    Shannon Frattaroli, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Core Faculty, Center for Injury Research and Policy, JHBSPH, Core Faculty, Center for Gun Policy and Research, JHBSPH.     Shannon’s research and teaching focuses on policy and program interventions to reduce injury.  She...
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Centers
Kentucky Injury Prevention Research Ctr.
The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center was founded in 1994 as a joint initiative of the state's Dept. for Public Health and the University of Kentucky.  Its goal is to reduce the burden of injury across the state.  The 18 KIPRC core staff members include faculty and technical researchers, outreach workers and coordinators, IT and other infrastructure support.  Their work...
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Facts
Elderly

For older adults 65-74 years and 75 years and over, hospital discharge rates in 2004-2005 for injury among women were 1.4-1.7 times the rates for men. Source: CDC/NCHS, Bergen G,Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008

Elderly

For the older population, 75 years of age and over, almost three-fourths of injury hospitalizations were for fractures. Fractures to the hip account for nearly 3 out of 5 of these fractures. Source: CDC/NCHS, Bergen G,Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008


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From SAVIR in Injury Prevention 

Emergency medicine and injury research:  challenges and opportunities
Brendan G. Carr, Michael J. Mello
February 2010 Issue 

Shannon Frattaroli, Nathan Yee, Keshia M. Pollack, et al.
December 2009 Issue

Michael J. Mello and Corinne Peek-Asa
October 2009 Issue

Help put 'Injury" Prevention and Care back into Healthcare Reform
August 2009 Issue

Child Injury around the World: a Global Research Agenda for Child Injury Prevention
June 2009 Issue

Core Competencies for Injury and  Violence Prevention
April 2009 Issue

 

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