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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


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New Book by David Hemenway

David Hemenway's new book While You Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention (2009) published by the University of California Press describes more than sixty successes, and over thirty heroes who have made the world safer. This readable book helps answer the questions “What is public health?” and “What is the public health approach?”

Read more about the book and David Hemenway's blog here:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/success-stories/index.html

Purchase the book here:
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11163.php

Posted by Karen Zuri on June 09, 2009 at 10:29 am

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