Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research: Welcome

Board of Directors
Frederick Rivara
Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH, is the holder of the Children's Guild Association Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics and adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. He is chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine. Dr. Rivara earned a bachelor's degree at the...
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Injury Prevention and Research Center
The Injury Prevention and Research Center (IPRC) at Children's Memorial Hospital strives to reduce preventable injuries to children and adolescents. Founded in 2005, the IPRC coordinates all unintentional and intentional (including child maltreatment) injury prevention activities within the hospital. The IPRC works collaboratively with communities, schools, and public agencies throughout Illinois...
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In 2004, 167,184 people died as a result of injury accounting for 7.0% of all deaths; 1.9 million hospitalizations were for injuries accounting for 6% of all hospital discharges; and 31 million initial visits for injuries were made to emergency departments accounting for 32% of all initial emergency department visits. 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

In 2004-2005, fractures were the leading diagnosis for hospital discharges for injury accounting for 53% of all injuries, followed by system-wide injuries (16%), and internal organ injuries (12%). 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

SAVIR Webinar
National Action Plan
for Child Injury Prevention
The Way Forward
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 1pm ET
No pre-registration needed.

Preventing Injuries to Children in America
a Call to Action
SAVIR Report to NICHD
January 2012

Safe States Alliance and SAVIR
awarded NCIPC
Cooperative Agreement
Evaluation of Core VIPPP

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SAVIR's Official Journal is Injury Prevention,
a member of the BMJ Publishing Group

From SAVIR in Injury Prevention

Advancing understanding of racial and ethnic inequalities in injury research
Keshia M. Pollack, Thomas LaVeist
April 2012 Issue

Lessons from the past
Leonard Paulozzi, Ann Dellinger and Linda Degutis
February 2012 Issue

The new emphasis on implementing evidence-based interventions:
the end of research or a new beginning for partnerships?
Andrea C. Gielen, Shannon Frattaroli, Michael A. Yonas,
Richard W. Sattin, and Jeff Levi
December 2011 Issue

Injury research:
a perspective from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Linda C. Degutis, Richard W. Sattin
October 2011 Issue

Distracted driving among adolescents: challenges and opportunities
Annie A. Garner, Phillip R. Fine, Crystal A. Franklin, Richard W. Sattin, and Despina Stavrinos
August 2011 Issue

Preventing bicycle-related injuries: next steps
Frederick Rivara, Richard W. Sattin
June 2011 Issue

National public health week: focus on injury prevention
Susan Abramson, Georges C. Benjamin, Richard W. Sattin, and Andrea C. Gielen
April 2011 Issue

Concussion research: a public health priority
Douglas J. Weibe, R. Dawn Comstock, and Michael L. Nance
February 2011 Issue

Global injury surveillance: opportunities and challenges
Joyce C. Pressley and Michael J. Mello
December 2010 Issue

Advancing research in youth violence prevention
to inform evidence-based policy and practice
Tamara M Haegerich, Deborah Gorman-Smith, Douglas J Wiebe, Michael Yonas
October 2010 Issue

Field triage: optimising injury outcomes through use
of a revised on-scene decision-making protocol
Vikas Kapil, Richard W. Sattin, Scott Sasser, Lisa C. McGuire, Richard Hunt
August 2010 Issue

It wouldn't hurt to walk: promoting pedestrian injury research
David A. Sleet, Keshia Pollack, Fred Rivara,
Shannon Frattaroli, Corinne Peek-Asa
June 2010 Issue

SAVIR's Injury Prevention Articles Archives

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