Editor Brian Johnston talks to Laurel Austin (professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School) about using mental models to help prevent injuries and communicate risk.

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Injury prevention and risk communication: a mental models approach

Brian Johnston, 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

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

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 Johnston about what his study in Scotland revealed.

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Preventing bath water scalds: a cost-effectiveness analysis of introducing bath thermostatic mixer valves in social housing

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.

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Unintentional injury deaths among children younger than 5 years of age in India: a nationally representative study

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 Johnston (IP editor-in-chief) asks Anne Lusk (Harvard School of Public Health) what research on this reveals.

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 Johnston 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.

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A controlled evaluation of the WHO Safe Communities model approach to injury prevention: increasing child restraint use in motor vehicles

In this month’s podcast, IP editor Brian Johnston 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

In this month’s podcast, IP editor Brian Johnston 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.

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Cultural translation: acceptability and efficacy of a US-based injury prevention intervention in China

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