TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Injury Control: The Public Health Approach A1 - Peek-Asa, Corinne A1 - Heiden, Erin O. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2017 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - Injuries are a focus of public health practice because they pose a serious health threat, occur frequently, and are in most situations preventable.1 Preventing traumatic injuries and controlling their severity offer a cost-effective approach to improve the health status of populations. Injuries are a very broad group of afflictions, arising from many different activities and risk factors, and can affect all organ systems of the body. Since injuries are so diverse in mechanisms of occurrence, formulating an organized and structured approach to studying their incidence and prevention is helpful. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/09 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141963034 ER -