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Increases in United States life expectancy through reductions in injury-related death

Population Health Metrics, 2017
Background During the previous century the average lifespan in the United States (US) increased by over 30 years, with much of this increase attributed to public health initiatives.
Scott R. Kegler, Grant T. Baldwin, Rose A. Rudd, Michael F. Ballesteros   +3 more
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Effect of Sports and Growth on Hamstrings and Quadriceps Development in Young Female Athletes: Cross-Sectional Study

Sports, 2019
Context: Lower extremity muscular strength may vary by different sport participation during growth process. Objective: To investigate effect of sport participation and growth by comparing strength of the hamstrings, quadriceps, and hamstrings to ...
Dai Sugimoto, Dennis R. Borg, Anna N. Brilliant, William P. Meehan, Lyle J. Micheli, Ellen T. Geminiani   +5 more
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Life experiences associated with change in perpetration of domestic violence

Injury Epidemiology, 2020
Background This study assessed whether several adult life experiences, including loss of support, loss of food security, loss of housing, and substance use cessation, are associated with change in domestic violence (DV) perpetration from early to later ...
Avanti Adhia, Vivian H. Lyons, Hannah Cohen-Cline, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar   +3 more
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Including the Nordic hamstring exercise in injury prevention programmes halves the rate of hamstring injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 8459 athletes

British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2019
Research question Does the Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) prevent hamstring injuries when included as part of an injury prevention intervention? Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.
N. van Dyk, F. Behan, R. Whiteley
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Accident prevention--injury control--injury prevention--or whatever? [PDF]

Injury Prevention, 1995
The launch of a new international Journal on injury prevention offers a unique opportunity to open up a debate on terminology. Over the last 30 years or so there has emerged a number of terms which bear may not be compatible. In North America there now seem there now appears to be a strong consensus on the use of the term injury control.
openaire   +3 more sources

Implementation of mandatory opioid prescribing limits in North Carolina: healthcare administrator and prescriber perspectives

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Recent increases in state laws to reduce opioid prescribing have demonstrated a need to understand how they are interpreted and implemented in healthcare systems.
Natalie A. Blackburn, Elizabeth Joniak-Grant, Maryalice Nocera, Samantha Wooten Dorris, Nabarun Dasgupta, Paul R. Chelminski, Timothy S. Carey, Li-Tzy Wu, David A. Edwards, Stephen W. Marshall, Shabbar I. Ranapurwala   +10 more
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Suicide attempts and behavioral correlates among a nationally representative sample of school-attending adolescents in the Republic of Malawi

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Suicide is among the top causes of adolescent mortality worldwide. While correlates of suicidal behavior are better understood and delineated in upper-income countries, epidemiologic knowledge of suicidal behavior in low-income countries ...
Masood A. Shaikh, Jennifer Lloyd, Emmanuel Acquah, Karen L. Celedonia, Michael L. Wilson   +4 more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline on the Diagnosis and Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Among Children

JAMA pediatrics, 2018
Importance Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, in children is a rapidly growing public health concern because epidemiologic data indicate a marked increase in the number of emergency department visits for mTBI over the past decade. However,
Angela Lumba-Brown, K. Yeates, Kelly Sarmiento, M. Breiding, Tamara M. Haegerich, G. Gioia, M. Turner, E. Benzel, S. Suskauer, C. Giza, M. Joseph, C. Broomand, Barbara Weissman, W. Gordon, D. Wright, R. Moser, K. McAvoy, L. Ewing-Cobbs, A. Duhaime, M. Putukian, B. Holshouser, D. Paulk, S. Wade, S. Herring, M. Halstead, H. Keenan, M. Choe, C. Christian, K. Guskiewicz, P. Raksin, Andrew J. M. Gregory, A. Mucha, H. Taylor, J. Callahan, John Dewitt, M. Collins, Michael W. Kirkwood, J. Ragheb, R. Ellenbogen, T. Spinks, T. Ganiats, Linda J. Sabelhaus, Katrina Altenhofen, Rosanne Hoffman, Thomas S. D. Getchius, G. Gronseth, Zoe Donnell, R. O’Connor, S. Timmons   +48 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lightning Injury is a disaster in Bangladesh? - Exploring its magnitude and public health needs [version 1; referees: 3 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

F1000Research, 2016
Background: Lightning injury is a global public health issue. Low and middle-income countries in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world are most affected by lightning.
Animesh Biswas, Koustuv Dalal, Jahangir Hossain, Kamran Ul Baset, Fazlur Rahman, Saidur Rahman Mashreky   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics of unintentional injuries reported to Shanghai hospitalized injury surveillance system， 2017‒2020

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2023
ObjectiveTo analyze the characteristics of hospitalized unintentional injuries and to provide evidence for formulating injury prevention and control strategies.MethodsDescriptive analysis was conducted on injury information of unintentional injury cases ...
XU Naiting, PENG Juanjuan, GAO Ning, ZHOU Deding, YU Yan, LIU Jinghong, SHI Yan   +6 more
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