Find state-by-state injury death rates and rankings and a report card for how well states scored on 10 key indicators of steps states can take to prevent injuries.
The Injury Free Coalition for Kids established an ongoing national network of hospital-based programs focused on reducing injuries to children in high-injury neighborhoods.
NewPublicHealth spoke with Sheila Regan, who manages hospital partnerships for Cure Violence, formerly CeaseFire, an organization based in Chicago that has pioneered a public health approach to stopping shootings and killings.
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January 15, 2013 | Interactive
Find state-by-state scores and rankings on helmet and seatbelt laws, preventing intimate partner violence and other efforts to prevent injuries.
January 3, 2013 | Report
This report, released by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, concludes that millions of injuries could be prevented each year if more states adopted additional research-based injury prevention policies, and if programs were fully implemented and enforced.
December 13, 2012 | Story
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hails RWJF scholars and others for their transformative work to prevent injury and violence.
January 27, 2011 | Program Result
The Injury Free Coalition for Kids, a national network of local physician-led, hospital-based programs in Level I pediatric trauma centers, conducts interventions to prevent childhood injuries through education and environmental change.
November 3, 2010 | Journal Article
A tailored communication and intervention effort–the Fall Prevention Tool Kit–can reduce hospital falls, especially in elderly.
January 1, 2004 | Program Result
The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions, in partnership with the Injury Free Coalition for Kids, convened a conference, "Partners in Prevention: Making Communities Injury Free."
June 1, 1999 | Program Result
On January 1, 1995, Chicago Youth Programs (CYP), in conjunction with Children's Memorial Hospital, became the third site of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids program.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center started its Injury Free Kids project in its Los Angeles' South Bay community in 1996 with a focus on two ethnically homogenous communities.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result
In 1994, Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital became the first site of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids program.
February 1, 1999 | Program Result
During 1996 and 1997, staff at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington, Seattle, in collaboration with the International Society of Child and Adolescent Injury Preventiondeveloped information for a broad audience on strategies for the prevention of injuries to children and adolescents.