This is a controversial recommendation from the head of the child death review committee in New Zealand. I think it makes sense to test caregivers to see if they were intoxicated while looking after a child who has died in certain circumstances. What do you think? […]
Category: News & Notes
An update on registering clinical trials: does it help?
Ana Marusic is a devoted contributor to WAME (and co-editor of the Journal of Global Health). She recently posted a link to a paper in which she was a co-author that deals with the completeness and changes in registered data regarding RCTs. Although there are few RCTs in injury prevention (too few) the findings are […]
Rating and Ranking Australian Injury Research
From editorial board member Caroline Finch: Australian researchers and research institutions are sifting through the outcomes of the first national Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment which includes, amongst other things, ranking of the quality of research outputs according to the journal in which they appear. The list of journal rankings is not without […]
Injury v. Accident: Google N-gram Viewer
Have a look at Google labs N-gram viewer. It is either a really cool bibliographic and linguistic research tool or an incredible time sink … or maybe both. Google has digitized millions of books in English, mostly, but also in several other major languages. Single words and “n” word combinations are catalogued and described in […]
No Need to Grope
Leonard Evans on travel safety… […]
US releases “Healthy People 2020”
The US government today released Healthy People 2020, a blueprint of indicators and targets used to set the country’s health-promotion and disease-prevention agenda. The framework includes a series of indicators for violence and injury prevention. Most goals are modest – a 10% reduction from baseline rates over 10 years. Some even call for simply stopping […]
Gapminder looks at injury
The international community of injury prevention researchers and safety promotion advocates convened in London last week for the 10th World Conference on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion. Professor Mark Bellis, chairman of the host national organizing committee in the UK should be proud of the conference his team produced. One of the highlights of the […]
CDC Announces New Director for Injury Center
Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN, has been selected to serve as Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC). This is very welcome news and a fantastic achievement for Linda, who is also a member of our editorial board. Injury Programs at the CDC […]
Brazil’s new child passenger protection law stricter but faulty
The News and Notes section of the August 2010 issue will have a comment on the new Brazilian child restraint law, which went into force last month, aiming at a stricter control over child motor vehicle occupant safety than most such legislation worldwide. It amends the already rigid 1998 Brazilian Traffic Code by not only […]
Body Checking and Injury in Youth Hockey
Earlier this year, Carolyn Emery and colleagues published a systematic review and meta-analysis of risk factors for injury and severe injury in youth ice hockey in Injury Prevention. They found that body checking was identified as a significant risk factor for all injuries (summary rate ratio: 2.45; 95% CI 1.7 to 3.6) and concussion (summary […]