World Health Day 2015

In case you didn’t know, today, the 7th of April, is World Health Day 2015. As can be read on the World Health Organization website, WHO hopes to highlight the challenges and opportunities associated with food safety under the slogan “From farm to plate, make food safe.” “Food production has been industrialized and its trade […]

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Special online issue of Injury Prevention

In a recent email, the editor of Injury Prevention, Brian Johnston, announced that in recognition of the Journal’s 20th Anniversary a special online issue was available. This features “some of the best papers in global injury prevention” that ordinarily would have been presented at the Safety 2014: the World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety […]

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Participants and researchers: An interesting approach

Last weekend I had an opportunity to see first-hand an interesting approach for participants and researchers in action. Unfortunately I have a medical condition which means I experience neuropathic pain (this is NOT fun!). Therefore I am always on the look-out for any new research regarding managing (and ideally, minimising) pain. The general consensus seems to […]

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Impact and Innovation: Preventing Injury in a Changing World

Regular readers of the Injury Prevention blog are well-aware of my passionate support for conferences: not only do you get to learn about and share cutting-edge research, networking with peers can be invaluable for many, many, reasons, not least of which is sparking new collaborative research and practice efforts. This quick blog is to let you know about […]

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Two fabulous women

In case you hadn’t heard, today is International Women’s Day. What is the purpose of International Women’s Day, I hear you ask? International Women’s Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.    Today I wanted to write a blog from my heart. […]

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Crotchety post?

I recently came across a posting on some website or other about a ‘new study’ that discovered that poverty is linked to children’s injuries!! Am I alone is wishing that editors would resist publishing studies that simply repeat what is already well known? When a Journal asks authors to state “what this study adds” or […]

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