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Board of Directors
Stephen Marshall
Steve Marshall, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Orthopedics and an adjunct appointment in Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a core faculty member for the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center. Dr. Marshall’s main area of research focus is injury epidemiology. His current research is largely focused on injuries from sports...
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Centers
UNC Injury Prevention Research Center
The University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center (UNC IPRC) was created in 1987 as one of five original “centers of excellence” funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  An interdisciplinary center, UNC IPRC’s mission is: “to build the field of injury prevention and control through a combination of interdisciplinary scholarly approaches...
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Facts
Costs

Insurance costs and out-of-pocket spending for all medical services are quantified by the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), a nationally-representative survey of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. MEPS reported that injuries in 2000 contributed to 10% of U.S. medical expenditures; when MEPS percentages were applied to the annual National Health Accounts data (which trace expenditures within the health care system), injury-related medical expenditures were estimated to cost Americans $117 billion each year.

Leading Mechanisms

Motor vehicle traffic fatalities are the leading mechanism of death for most ages. Poisonings were the leading mechanism for persons 34-53 years of age, and falls were the leading mechanism for those 73 years of age and over. 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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