Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research: Welcome to SAVIR

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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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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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About one in four injury episodes in 2004-2005 occurred while people were engaged in leisure (excluding sports) activities. Sports, working around house or yard, and working at a paid job each accounted for about 15% of the activities people were doing when they were injured. 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

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.

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

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

SAVIR's Injury Prevention Articles Archives