RT Book, Section
A1 Peek-Asa, Corinne
A1 Heiden, Erin O.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141963034
T1 Injury Control: The Public Health Approach
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141963034
RD 2024/04/19
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.