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Board of Directors
Susan DeFrancesco
Susan DeFrancesco, JD, MPH, MAT is Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Prevention and Population Sciences. She has over twenty years experience in injury prevention. Her work has primarily included research and practice related to childhood injury prevention, the development and implementation of injury prevention laws and policies, and...
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Centers
Mt. Sinai Injury Control Research Center
  Mount Sinai Injury Control Research Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City is the newest CDC Injury Control Research Center. They will conduct research on persons with traumatic brain injury to better understand the consequences of their injury and needs and to enhance the quality of their lives.   Four research studies will be implemented: (1) A randomized...
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Facts
Age Disparity

Young persons 15-24 years of age had the highest initial emergency department visit rate for injury in 2004-2005, 1,484.8 visits per 10,000 population – more than twice the rate for adults 65-74 years of age, who had the lowest rate, 653.9 visits per 10,000 population. 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

Occupational Injury

Farming, fishing and forestry workers have the highest occupational injury fatality rates. However, transportation and material moving, and construction, and extraction occupations resulted in the highest number of fatal work injuries. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries.

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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