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Falls accounted for 26% of initial emergency department visits for injuries while injuries resulting from being struck by or against an object or a person accounted for 13% and motor vehicle traffic accidents accounted for 12% in 2004-2005. 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

--Karen Zuri

Posted by Karen Zuri on December 31, 1969 at 07:00 pm

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