Injury Prevention Podcast

A year on from Sandy Hook: Why is US funding for research on gun violence still being blocked?

December 14, 2013, is the one year anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newton, Connecticut, USA, in which 20 young children were massacred.
Dr Fred Rivara, professor of pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, discusses the need for research on gun violence, and the reasons that funding for this has been blocked in the US for almost two decades.
The Institute of Medicine report, Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence, is available here: bit.ly/1e9UMvj

IP podcast - Economic Disparity And Childhood Mortality Due To Injury In Europe

Read the full research online: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/19/5/311Brian Johnston, IP editor, talks to Mathilde Sengoelge from the Department of Public Health Sciences, at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. They discuss the Editor's choice manuscript, Country-level economic disparity and child mortality related to housing and injuries: a study in 26 European countries

Acute occupational injury among adolescent farmworkers from South Texas

Brian Johnston, IP Editor in Chief, talks to Eva Shipp, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Rural Public Health in Texas, about her latest research into injury rates amongst adolescent, migrant farmworkers in Starr county, South Texas.Read the full research : http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/19/4/264.full

Greening vacant lots reduces violent injury

In Philadelphia, the local authority has undertaken a project to green vacant lots, with the aim of improving the city. Research by Charles Branas, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, has shown that not only did this have the desired aesthetic effect, it also lead to a reduction in violent crime in those areas.He joins Brian Johnston, IP's editor in chief, to discuss his work. Read the full research: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/19/3/198

Risk and protective behaviours for residential carbon monoxide poisoning

Unintentional, non-fire-related carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of poisoning death and injury in the USA. Most residential poisonings are preventable, so how to get people to adopt these protective behaviours?IP editor Brian Johnston talks to Douglas Rupert, Health Communication Program, RTI International, and Scott Damon, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about what their research looking at the question revealed.See also:Risk and protective behaviours for residential carbon monoxide poisoning http://bit.ly/12FjyeH

Data sharing for prevention

Can emergency department data sharing help prevent violence and alcohol-related harm? Editor Brain Johnston talks to Karen Hughes (behavioural epidemiologist, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University) about the way data is integration into multi-agency policy and practice in the North West of England, and the role this played in driving local violence prevention activity.See also:Data sharing for prevention: a case study in the development of a comprehensive emergency department injury surveillance system and its use in preventing violence and alcohol-related harms http://bit.ly/14MiFV7

Barriers to implementing falls prevention programmes in senior centres

IP editor Brian Johnston talks to Ciara Zachary (postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Health Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University) about her study looking at barriers to implementing falls prevention programmes in senior centres.See also:Barriers to senior centre implementation of falls prevention programmes http://bit.ly/XmpJ4k

Inequality and injury prevention policy

Tackling inequality in health is an important part of the public policy agenda in many countries; however, many interventions that could improve overall health might also increase inequality.Robert Lu (Institute of Public Health, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) has been tracking mortality from road traffic injuries after a mandatory motorcycle helmet law was introduced in Taiwan, and editor Brian Johnston asks him how this varied regionally and over time.See also:Reducing regional inequality in mortality from road traffic injuries through enforcement of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law in Taiwan http://bit.ly/ZMyPFj

Mental models

Editor Brian Johnston talks to Laurel Austin (professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School) about using mental models to help prevent injuries and communicate risk.See also:Injury prevention and risk communication: a mental models approach http://bit.ly/15EaYzY

It was a freak accident

Brian Johnston, IP editor, talks to Katherine Smith, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about her recent study examining the use by the US media of the expression ‘freak accident’ in relation to injury events.See also:‘It was a freak accident’: an analysis of the labelling of injury events in the US press http://bit.ly/10wxFVI