6 Feb, 12 | by BMJ Group
Brian Johnson, IP editor, talks to Katherine Smith, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about her recent study examining the use by the US media of the expression ‘freak accident’ in relation to injury events.
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‘It was a freak accident’: an analysis of the labelling of injury events in the US press
10 Jan, 12 | by BMJ Group
Brian Johnston, Injury Prevention’s editor, talks to Jennifer Taylor from the Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, about this month’s editor’s choice.
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Triangulating case-finding tools for patient safety surveillance: a cross-sectional case study of puncture/laceration
10 Aug, 11 | by BMJ Group
Thermostatic mixer valves - which keep water delivered to the bath below a maximum temperature - can prevent scalds. But would adding them to new build houses and those undergoing a change in use be cost-effective?
Ceri Phillips (Swansea University, UK) talks to IP editor Brian Johnson about what his study in Scotland revealed.
20 Jun, 11 | by BMJ Group
Brian Johnston, Injury Prevention’s editor, talks to Jagnoor Jagnoor from the George Institute in Australia about this month’s editor’s choice.
India’s million deaths study used cross sectional verbal autopsies to take a snapshot of the main causes of deaths in India - data which are otherwise poorly reported. Jagnoor and colleagues used these data to examine cause of death due to injury in children under five, the results of which are published in Injury Prevention this month.
30 Mar, 11 | by BMJ Group
Although most people prefer to bicycle on facilities separated from motor traffic, as with cycle tracks, guidance in the USA has suggested that these separated facilities are more dangerous than bicycling on the road. Brian Johnson (IP editor-in-chief) asks Anne Lusk (Harvard School of Public Health) what research on this reveals.
2 Feb, 11 | by BMJ Group
This month’s editor’s choice reports success in using the World Health Organisation safe communities model approach to increase child restraint in motor vehicles. Brian Johnson asks lead author Greg Istre, from the Injury Prevention Center of Greater Dallas, USA, about what they achieved and the value and difficulties of the approach.
25 Jan, 11 | by BMJ Group
In this month’s podcast, IP editor Brian Johnson talks to one of the authors on this month’s editor’s choice, Will Pickett, from the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. They discuss his work using a novel method of investigating agricultural injury in Canadian farmers.
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Determinants of agricultural injury: a novel application of population health theory
2 Dec, 10 | by BMJ Group
In this month’s podcast, IP editor Brian Johnson talks to Flaura Winston, University of Pennsylvania and Joan Ozanne-Smith, Monash University. They discuss their research into the efficacy and acceptability of an injury prevention intervention, designed for the USA, but implemented in China.
13 Sep, 10 | by BMJ Group
Brian Johnston, IP’s editor, talks to Mathieu Gagne, The Institut national de santé publique du Québec, about the effect firearms regulation introduced in 1991 has had on the rate of method-specific male suicide in the Canadian province.
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Firearms regulation and declining rates of male suicide in Quebec
25 Jun, 10 | by BMJ Group
Brian Johnston, IP’s editor, talks to Isaac Kofi Yankson from the CSIR-Building and Road Research Institute, Ghana, and Beth E Ebel from the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, about their look how road traffic injury and injury prevention were reported in Ghanaian newspapers.
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