Injury Prevention Podcast

Safe spaces for children to be active

In this podcast, Professor Brent Hagel, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McLure, how his career as a scientist moved from an undergraduate degree in health education through to injury prevention in sports and more recently to methods of encouraging physical activity within a safe environment. The conversation evolves to a detailed discussion of the rigorous methodological approaches used in injury prevention.
The articles mentioned in this podcast are:
- Hagel BE, Meeuwisse WH, Mohtadi NG, Fick GH.Skiing and snowboarding injuries in the children and adolescents of Southern Alberta.Clin J Sport Med. 1999 Jan;9(1):9-17;
- Thompson DC, Rivara FP, Thompson RS.Effectiveness of bicycle safety helmets in preventing head injuries. A case-control study.JAMA. 1996 Dec 25;276(24):1968-73;
- Roberts I, Marshall R, Lee-Joe T. The urban traffic environment and the risk of child pedestrian injury: a case-crossover approach. Epidemiology. 1995 Mar;6(2):169-71;
- Runyan CW. Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension. Inj Prev. 1998 Dec;4(4):302-7 (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/4/4/302).

Redesigning traffic for people and the environment. Professor Ian Roberts on his shift to prevention

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Ian Roberts first trained as a paediatrician in the UK and then studied injury prevention and trauma care in New Zealand and Canada.
In this podcast, he tells Rod McClure how a young death triggered the swap from a career in treatment to one in prevention. He also talks about the need to think about injury prevention in a more sustainable way.
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Mark Stevenson on mobile phones, big data and a new era in Injury Prevention

Mark Stevenson (University of Melbourne, Australia) is one of the State of the Art Review Editors of Injury Prevention. He talks with Rod McClure about a new era in the practice of Injury Prevention supported by technology and big data, both powerful allies in his most recent work.
More details of the papers mentioned in this podcast:
- The epidemiology of accidents. American Journal of Public Health. 1949, 39(4):504-515
- The role of sleepiness, sleep disorders, and the work environment on heavy-vehicle crashes in 2 Australian states. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2014, 179(5):594-601.
- Childhood drowning: barriers surrounding private swimming pools. Pediatrics, 2003, 111: e115-e119.
- Land use, transport and population health; estimating the health benefits of compact cities. Lancet, 2016; published online Sept 23.
- The role of mobile phones in motor vehicle crashes resulting in hospital attendance: a case-crossover study. British Medical Journal, 2005, 331:428-433. - https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7514/428

“Injury Prevention was an accident”. Putting injury in the national agenda in India

Dr Rakhi Dandona, PhD, is a Clinical Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and at the Public Health Foundation of India, She is a lead investigator on epidemiological studies on injuries, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, blindness and mortality estimation and also an Associate Editor of Injury Prevention. In this podcast, Dr Dandona tells Rod McClure how she almost didn't pursuit Injury Prevention and why research contradicts some of the national stats regarding injury and mortality in India.
The papers mentioned in this podcast:
1 - Haddon W Jr. The changing approach to the epidemiology, prevention, and amelioration of trauma: the transition to approaches etiologically rather than descriptively based. 1968. Inj Prev. 1999 Sep;5(3):231-5. (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/5/3/231)
2 - Dandona R, Kumar GA, Ameer MA, Ahmed GM, Dandona L. Incidence and burden of road traffic injuries in urban India. Inj Prev. 2008 Dec;14(6):354-9. (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/14/6/354)
3 - Dandona R, Bertozzi-Villa A, Kumar GA, Dandona L. Lessons from a decade of suicide surveillance in India: who, why and how? Int J Epidemiol. 2017 Jun 1;46(3):983-993. (https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/3/983/2617187)

Road safety and communication. Why Professor Martha Híjar chose research over public service

Professor Martha Híjar has recently made the decision of leaving her role as the Director of the National Council for Injury Prevention of the Ministry of Health in México to go back to research. She explains why in this conversation with Professor Rod McClure. She is a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México and author and co-author of many articles in the Injury Prevention field, the majority of which are written in Spanish, so "they can reach all her colleagues in Latin America” she tells. Professor Híjar also talks about taking on the job of editing Injury Prevention and explores her Mexico-city-based career path in this field.
References to the mentioned papers below:
- Baker SP. Childhood Injuries: The Community Approach to Prevention. J Public Health Policy 2:235-246, 1981.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3342369
- Híjar MC, Carrillo C, Flores M, Anaya R, Lopez MV. Factores de riesgo de lesión por accidentes de tráfico y el impacto de una intervención en carretera. (Risk factors for road traffic injuries on highway, impact of an intervention on the road) Rev Saúde Pública de Brasil.1999, 33 (5):505-51.
https://www.scielosp.org/pdf/rsp/1999.v33n5/505-512/es
- Híjar M, Troste J, Bronfman M. Pedestrian injuries in México: a multi-method approach. Social Science & Medicine 2003, 57(11):2149-2159.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953603000674

Poverty and children’s burn injury. How common citizens help shape Injury Prevention in South Africa

This month’s guest is a specialist in childhood burns and violence-related injuries in South Africa. Professor Ashley Van Niekerk is the deputy director of the Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa. He tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Professor Rod McClure, how the social changes of the 1990s and the current political and economic unrest in the country have been shaping his career in Injury Prevention.
Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (injuryprevention.bmj.com) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month.
The articles mentioned in this podcast are:
Van Niekerk, A., Govender, R., Hornsby, N., & Swart, L. (2017). Household and caregiver characteristics and behaviours as predictors of unsafe exposure of children to paraffin appliances. Burns, 43, 866-876.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2016.10.022
Van Niekerk, A., Tonsing, S., Seedat, M., Jacobs, R., Ratele, K. & McClure, R. (2015). The invisibility of men in South African violence prevention policy: National prioritisation, male vulnerability, and framing prevention. Global Health Action, 8: 27649.
https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.27649
Lockhat R, Van Niekerk A. (2000). South African children and mental health: A history of adversity, violence and trauma. Ethnicity and Health, 5(3/4), 291-302.
https://doi.org/10.1080/713667462

Injury and violence: achieving population level change

In the first podcast of the year, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure talks to Natalie Wilkins, from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Dr Wilkins experience in the injury prevention field ranges from opioids overuse to car accidents, sports injury, child abuse and suicide. She is the guest editor of a supplement of the Injury Prevention journal titled “Achieving population level change”, which brings together different approaches for achieving population-level change to improve injury-related health of communities. Read it for free: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1.
A list of specific papers mentioned in this podcast below:
A social change perspective on injury prevention in China - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i25
What matters, when, for whom? three questions to guide population health scholarship -
https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i3
New York City’s window guard policy: four decades of success - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i14
How the science of injury prevention contributes to advancing home fire safety in the USA: successes and opportunities - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i7
Compared with what? Estimating the effects of injury prevention policies using the synthetic control method - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i60
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Firearms injury. Professor David Studdert on mass shootings, health law and changing careers

In the second podcast of a series about the papers that helped shape a career in Injury Prevention, Professor Rod McClure talks to Professor David Studdert, expert in health law and empirical legal research from the Stanford Law School and Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, whose latest research career focus on the burden of injuries and deaths from firearms, especially in the wake of mass shootings.
Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (injuryprevention.bmj.com) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month.
More about the papers mentioned in this podcast below:
(2017) “Handgun Acquisitions in California After Two Mass Shootings” -
https://law.stanford.edu/publications/handgun-acquisitions-in-california-after-two-mass-shootings/
(2010) "Relationship between vehicle emissions laws and incidence of suicide by motor vehicle exhaust gas in Australia, 2001-06: an ecological analysis" - https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000210
(1991) "Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients — Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I" - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199102073240604.

My top papers are… Rachid Salmi on escaping tigers, a bridge of death and child head trauma

The papers that helped shape a career in Injury Prevention. In the first podcast of this series, Rod McClure, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, talks to Rachid Salmi, Professor of Public Health at the Université de Bordeaux, who pursued a research topic that was "under recognised" in the 1970s.
Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month.
More about the papers mentioned in this podcast below:
“On the escape of tigers: an ecologic note”, W Haddon, Jr - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1349282
“Motor vehicle related injury on the bridges between Montreal and the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River, 1978-1982”, B P Brown, L R Salmi, S Lecours, and R N Battista - https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.75.8.871
“Simulation of the Impact of Programs for Prevention and Screening of Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma”, M Bailhache, A Bénard, L R Salmi - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26566679

Structural housing elements associated with home injuries in children

In this podcast Dr Brian Johnston talks to Wendy Shields and Eileen McDonald co-authors of the paper "Structural housing elements associated with home injuries in children".
Full paper >>http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/22/2/105.full