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Prevention of injury and violence in the USA
Haegerich TM , Dahlberg LL , Simon TR , Baldwin GT , Sleet DA , Greenspan AI , Degutis LC . Lancet 2014 384 (9937) 64-74 In the first three decades of life, more individuals in the USA die from injuries and violence than from any other cause. Millions more people survive and are left with physical, emotional, and financial problems. Injuries and violence are not accidents; they are preventable. Prevention has a strong scientific foundation, yet efforts are not fully implemented or integrated into clinical and community settings. In this Series paper, we review the burden of injuries and violence in the USA, note effective interventions, and discuss methods to bring interventions into practice. Alliances between the public health community and medical care organisations, health-care providers, states, and communities can reduce injuries and violence. We encourage partnerships between medical and public health communities to consistently frame injuries and violence as preventable, identify evidence-based interventions, provide scientific information to decision makers, and strengthen the capacity of an integrated health system to prevent injuries and violence. |
CDC Grand Rounds: evidence-based injury prevention
Degutis LC , Sleet DA , Kohn M , Benjamin G , Cohen N , Iskander J . MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2014 62 1048-50 Approximately 5.8 million persons die from injuries each year, accounting for 10% of all deaths worldwide. In the United States, 180,000 persons die each year from injuries, making the category the country's leading cause of death for those aged 1-44 years and the leading cause of years of potential life lost before age 65 years. Injuries also result in 2.8 million hospitalizations and 29 million emergency department visits each year in the United States. Motor vehicle crashes, falls, homicides, suicides, domestic violence, child maltreatment, and other forms of intentional and unintentional injury affect all strata of society, with widespread physical, mental, and reproductive health consequences. Injuries and violence affect not only individuals, but also families and communities, producing substantial economic and societal burdens related to health-care costs, work loss, and disruption of education. The estimated annual U.S. cost in medical expenses and lost productivity resulting from injuries is $355 billion. |
Professional conferences enrich and energise
Pollack KM , Gielen AC , Williams AN , Degutis LC . Inj Prev 2013 19 (1) 72 Nearly 1200 academics, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world gathered in Wellington, New Zealand from 1–4 October 2012, for Safety 2012—the 11th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. The theme of the conference was ‘Connecting pathways for a vibrant and safer future,’ which was chosen to highlight the importance of key stakeholders strengthening collaborations to develop comprehensive approaches to address and prevent the most pressing injury problems of the 21st century. | When you return from conferences, it is often challenging to put into words what you ‘got out of it’. Typically, the networking opportunities stand out because these gatherings offer excellent opportunities to connect with people who you don't interact with in between meetings, or who you only talk to via internet. Good ideas and great enthusiasm usually result, and if you are fortunate there will be a follow through in the form of new, interesting, and impactful projects. Breaking free of the day-to-day and learning about new approaches and ideas can also be refreshing and inspiring, providing new energy for your return to the office. Such was the case at the recent World Conference. Poster and oral/panel sessions, breaks, and social events provided ample time for such connections. |
NCIPC's contribution to global injury and violence prevention: past, present, and future
Mahendra RR , Roehler DR , Degutis LC . J Safety Res 2012 43 (4) 271-7 Injuries and violence impact millions across the globe each year. For the past 20 years, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has assembled the largest cadre of injury and violence prevention experts in the world to reduce the burden of injuries and violence domestically and to inform global injury and violence prevention efforts. This article focuses on NCIPC's global injury and violence prevention work that involves: increasing awareness of the preventability of injury and violence, partnerships to promote injury research and best practices; establishing standards and guidance for data collection; building capacity through training and mentoring; and supporting evidence-based strategies. To decrease the global burden, the authors propose priority setting to maximize the development and sustainability of financial and human resources for injury and violence prevention. Impact on Industry: The authors call for increased capacity and resources for global injury and violence prevention. |
The future of injury and violence prevention: Where are we going?
Degutis LC . J Safety Res 2012 43 (4) 231-2 As we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the National Center for Injury Prevention (NCIPC) and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we are looking at the possibilities for progress in the next decade and beyond. We face many challenges, but through collaboration, innovation and creativity, we can meet the challenges ahead and ensure that the field of injury and violence prevention continues to work toward the goal of allowing people to live their lives injury and violence free. |
A history of injury and violence prevention in public health and evolution of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC
Sleet DA , Baldwin G , Marr A , Spivak H , Patterson S , Morrison C , Holmes W , Peeples AB , Degutis LC . J Safety Res 2012 43 (4) 233-47 Injuries and violence are among the oldest health problems facing humans. And yet, only within the past 50 years has the problem being addressed with scientific rigor using public health methods. The field of injury and violence prevention began as early as 1913, but wasn't approached systematically or epidemiologically until the 1940s and 1950s. It accelerated rapidly between 1960 and 1985. Coupled with active federal and state interest in reducing injuries and violence, this period was marked by important medical, scientific, and public health advances. The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) was an outgrowth of this progress and in 2012 celebrated its 20th anniversary. NCIPC was created in 1992 after a series of government reports identified injury as one of the most important public health problems facing the nation. Congressional action provided the impetus for the creation of NCIPC as the lead federal agency for non-occupational injury and violence prevention. In subsequent years, NCIPC and its partners fostered many advances and built even greater capacity. Because of the tragically high burden and cost of injuries and violence in the United States and across the globe, researchers, practitioners, and decision makers can improve progress by redoubling prevention efforts in the next 20 years. This article traces the history of injury and violence prevention as a public health priority – including the evolution and current structure of the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. |
Injury research: a perspective from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Degutis LC , Sattin RW . Inj Prev 2011 17 (5) 357 In 1985 the Institute of Medicine report Injury in America recommended that a centre for injury control be established at the Centers for Disease Control and that funding for research on injury should be commensurate with its public health burden.1 In 1992 the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) was created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), setting up a federal organisation whose sole focus is on injury—preventing injury and mitigating the consequences of injuries, using a public health approach to research and practice. Since then the USA has made significant progress in decreasing injury-related death and disability while continuing to develop a national infrastructure to support these efforts. Much of this progress has been done with little fanfare, working with our partners to translate evidence-based strategies to help communities and change environments, practice and policy. The nature of these efforts is exemplified in David Hemenway's recent book While We Were Sleeping which documents successful initiatives in injury prevention, such as the change in temperature controls on water heaters so that far fewer children are burned in bathtubs by water that is too hot.2 | Despite this progress, we still face many challenges in injury prevention, including identifying successful strategies that are scalable. In the USA we still see over 180 000 deaths from injury each year, and millions of hospitalisations and emergency department visits for the treatment of injury.3 There are untold numbers of both short-term and long-term injury-related disability, all of which result in increasing healthcare costs, lost productivity, family changes and community impacts. The network of CDC-funded Injury Control Research Centers, located in academic centres, together with non-CDC-funded Injury Centers and other injury researchers, continue to grow the evidence base and educate students and practitioners in the science of injury prevention and control. NCIPC has provided research grants that have advanced the science and seeded the careers of many scientists in the field of injury and violence prevention. Translation of research into practice has occurred at the national, state and local levels through practice change, policy initiatives and environmental interventions. Injury prevention programmes located in state health departments funded through the CDC continue to be leaders in translating effective interventions into practice. Many local health departments are also using the evidence to decrease injury in the communities that they serve. |
Approaching injury and violence prevention through public health policy: a window of opportunity to renew our focus
Degutis LC . West J Emerg Med 2011 12 (3) 271-2 As the new leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, I am thrilled by the opportunity to comment on the future direction of the Injury Center, as well as the intersection of policy and injury prevention. As the cost of healthcare continues to rise and greater demands are placed on the healthcare system, the use of public health policy becomes increasingly critical to protect the public’s health and prevent injury and its related morbidities and disabilities. I am committed to advancing the Injury Center’s focus on policy strategies to ensure that each person has the opportunity to live life to its fullest potential through the creation of an environment that decreases injury risks and promotes safety. | I recently came to the CDC from Yale University, where I served as research director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness (YCPHP) at the Yale School of Public Health. During 1996–97, I served in Senator Paul Wellstone’s office as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, and several years later, as the president of the American Public Health Association. These experiences, along with many others at the local, state and national levels throughout my career, have contributed to my understanding of the importance and success of policy initiatives in addressing the problem of injury and protecting the health of our nation. |
Public health in the emergency department: surveillance, screening, and intervention--funding and sustainability
Woolard R , Degutis LC , Mello M , Rothman R , Cherpitel CJ , Post LA , Hirshon JM , Haukoos JS , Hungerford DW . Acad Emerg Med 2009 16 (11) 1138-42 This article summarizes the work and discussions of the funding and sustainability work group at the 2009 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference "Public Health in the ED: Surveillance, Screening, and Intervention." The funding and sustainability session participants were asked to address the following overarching question: "What are the opportunities and what is needed to encourage academic emergency medicine (EM) to take advantage of the opportunities for funding available for public health research initiatives and build stronger academic programs focusing on public health within EM?" Prior to the session, members of the group reviewed research funding for EM in public health, as well as the priorities of federal agencies and foundations. Recommendations for actions by EM summarize the findings of workshop. |
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