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Board of Directors
Ivan Pless
Barry Pless, CM, MD, FRCPC, FRCPCH (Hon), FCAHS Barry Pless is now Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University.  He was a National Health Scientist from 1976 to 1997 and  then served as Director of Clinical Research at the Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute.  Dr. Pless is a former President of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association...
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Centers
Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center
The Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (PCVPC) Vision: The Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (PCVPC) will create safer communities by reducing the number of violent injuries and deaths in targeted communities in Philadelphia.    Mission:  To design, implement and evaluate programs that enhance resiliency and reduce the frequency and impact of...
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Facts
Location

In 2004-2005, half of all injury episodes occurred at home (either inside or outside). Streets, highways and parking lots as well as sports facilities and other recreation areas were equally likely (13% each) places for injury episodes to occur. 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

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

 

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