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Board of Directors
Michael Yonas
Michael Yonas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Concentrating on the health and safety needs of children and adolescents, his research employs an ecological-sensitive perspective for understanding and promoting health of individuals and communities.  Michael’s commitment to exploring and preventing youth violence is influenced...
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Centers
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    The Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy was founded in 1987.  The Center'smulti-disciplinary faculty conduct research on unintentional and intentional injury problems as well as primary prevention, acute care and rehabilitation. We are dedicated to: •    high quality research and its application to programs and policies that...
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Facts
Urban/Rural

Death rates from unintentional injuries and suicides are highest in the most rural counties while homicide rates are highest in the most urban counties. 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

Neurological Injury

Over a quarter of injury deaths involved injuries to the head and neck. Nine of ten head and neck injuries were classified as traumatic brain injuries. 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

Progress through Partnerships

2011 Joint Annual Meeting
of the
Safe States Alliance,
SAVIR, & CDC Core I & II
State Injury Grantees
April 6-8, 2011  Iowa City, IA

Submit an Abstract
for the 2011 Joint Annual Meeting



Injury Prevention

 
From SAVIR in Injury Prevention 

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

The translation imperative:  moving research into policy
Keshia Pollack, Alice Samuels, Shannon Frattaroli, Andrea C. Gielen
April 2010 Issue

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


SAVIR's Injury Prevention Articles Archives

 

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

 

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