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.
Start Strong combines innovative strategies in education, policy change, community outreach and social marketing to stop teen dating violence and empower teens to build healthier relationships throughout their lives.
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June 12, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Headlines include: Britain to Regulate, Improve Quality of E-Cigarettes Even Hands-Free Devices Create Unsafe, Distracted Driving Conditions CDC Partners with 104 Businesses to Improve Employee Health
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 14, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Public Health Law Research (PHLR), a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will hold its annual meeting in New Orleans this week. NewPublicHealth will be on the ground covering sessions on research in public health law as well as posting in ...
November 28, 2012 | New Public Health Post
NPH: Who are you partnering with on recovery and response now to help improve safety for residents? Donna Leusner: I think infrastructure-wise there is a built in set of partners that we had conference calls with beginning the weekend before the sto ...
November 27, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Substandard housing has been linked to a variety of health problems including higher blood lead levels in children and an increased asthma risk. Now a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy finds kids liv ...
October 23, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new study out this week finds New Jersey’s law requiring novice drivers to display a red decal on their license plates was effective in helping police officers enforce regulations unique to new drivers, and in preventing crashes. New Jersey is the ...
October 12, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Alan Schwarz spent the majority of his career as a baseball reporter before authoring dozens of stories for The New York Times unearthing the dangers of concussions in football at all levels—from the professional leagues down to kids’ leagues. He wa ...
August 24, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Each year 1.3 million people are killed and 20 to 50 million are injured in car crashes around the world. Rochelle Sobel founded the Association for Safe International Road Travel after her son was killed in a bus crash in Turkey.
April 16, 2012 | New Public Health Post
“One child’s death is one death too many, but thankfully we’re seeing improvement,” says Ileana Arias, PhD, Principal Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the latest CDC Vital Signs report, released today on ...
February 10, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A look at laws intended to reduce youth sports-related concussions was a focus of the recent Public Health Law Research annual meeting. Public Health Law Research is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program at Temple University. The issue is so crit ...