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 2024/10/09 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.