{"id":1190,"date":"2013-07-26T03:25:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2013-07-26T03:25:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:25:40","slug":"upcoming-twitter-discussion-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/07\/26\/upcoming-twitter-discussion-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming twitter discussion event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email today from Duncan Vernon\u00a0of the <em>Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents<\/em> (RoSPA). On the 30th of July at 8.00pm BST (GMT+1), Duncan will be guest hosting a twitter discussion about an &#8220;Editor&#8217;s choice&#8221; article recently published in <em>Injury Prevention. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Public health professionals from a variety of backgrounds regularly participate in the Public Health Twitter Journal Club.\u00a0Members vote to select papers to discuss, and the upcoming meeting will be discussing &#8220;<em>Greening vacant lots to reduce violent crime: a randomised controlled trial<\/em>&#8221; by Garvin, Cannuscio, and Branas (see <a href=\"http:\/\/injuryprevention.bmj.com\/content\/19\/3\/198.abstract?sid=20a2882e-85de-4161-abe8-9c4dfb721fee\">http:\/\/injuryprevention.bmj.com\/content\/19\/3\/198.abstract?sid=20a2882e-85de-4161-abe8-9c4dfb721fee<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Topics for discussion include:<\/p>\n<p>1. Were the aims of this study clear?<br \/>\n2. Was the methodology appropriate?<br \/>\n3. Did the analysis use appropriate methods?<br \/>\n4. Do you believe the results? The study reports non-significant reductions in crime and improvement\u00a0in\u00a0perceptions of disorder, but also a\u00a0significant improvement in residents perceptions of safety,\u00a0what could explain these findings?<br \/>\n5. What implications do the findings have for public health practice &amp; policy?<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more and the Club, or to join the latest discussion, visit\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/phtwitjc.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/25\/confirmed-injury-prevention-paper-for-phtwitjc-27\/\">http:\/\/phtwitjc.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/25\/confirmed-injury-prevention-paper-for-phtwitjc-27\/<\/a>\u00a0If you cannot join the discussion, or you would like to read earlier discussions, a link to the transcript is subsequently posted on the Journal Club website. Nominations for future discussion papers are also welcome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email today from Duncan Vernon\u00a0of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). On the 30th of July at 8.00pm BST (GMT+1), Duncan will be guest hosting a twitter discussion about an &#8220;Editor&#8217;s choice&#8221; article recently published in Injury Prevention. Public health professionals from a variety of backgrounds regularly participate in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/07\/26\/upcoming-twitter-discussion-event\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2724,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-splinters-fragments","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}