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Board of Directors
Cori Peek-Asa
Cori Peek-Asa, PhD, is a Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health, Director of the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, and Director of the International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Training Program in Central Europe. Dr. Peek-Asa is an epidemiologist who specializes in the evaluation of injury prevention programs. She has funded studies evaluating prevention strategies...
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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
Death Rate Distribution

Injury death rates are lower among children 6-11 years of age than any other age group, 6 deaths per 100,000 population, and highest, at close to 300 deaths per 100,000 population, among persons aged 85 and older. 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

US Burden

Injuries that occurred in 2000 cost the US health care system $1.1 billion for fatal injuries, $33.7 billion for injury hospitalizations, $31.8 billion for injury emergency department visits, and $13.6 billion for other outpatient visits. [Finkelstein EA, Corso PS, Miller TR. The Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.]


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

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From SAVIR in Injury Prevention

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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