Updates on Injury and Violence Prevention Interventions

This site contains downloadable *.pdf summaries of injury and violence prevention intervention efforts. These literature updates were prepared as a companion to the Handbook of injury and violence prevention, L. S. Doll, S. Bonzo, J. Mercy, & D. Sleet ( Eds.),  Secaucus, NJ: Springer, and provide information about the scope and nature of the injury and violence prevention problem and also summarize key findings of prevention interventions with comments on their effectiveness.

Most updates refer to additional on-line information on the subject and all of the updates contain extensive reference lists for further study.

The specific summaries are related to preventing: child maltreatment, drowning, elder abuse, falls among older adults, intimate partner violence, motor vehicle injuries, parenting and preventing childhood injuries, residential fire injuries, sexual violence, sports and recreation-related injuries, suicidal behavior, and youth violence; and reducing misuse of firearms.

These updates were prepared by the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center on behalf of the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention ( www.InjuryEd.org) and by its PREVENT Program www.PREVENT.unc.edu) with support from Springer Publishing and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control ( www.cdc.gov/ncipc).

For more information, please contact :

J'Ingrid Mathis, MS

Project Director, National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention

jcmathis@unc.edu

Karen Strazza Moore, MPH

Project Director, PREVENT Institute

ksmore@email.unc.edu

The Handbook of injury and violence prevention can be obtained through the publishers website:

http://www.springer.com/public+health/book/978-0-387-25924-6

• Child Maltreatment
• Drowning
• Elder Mistreatment
• Falls
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Motor Vehicle
• Parenting
• Residential Fire
• Sexual Violence
• Sports
• Firearms
• Suicide
• Youth Violence