Preventing Violence and Injury

Jingzhen Yang; Corinne Peek-Asa; Trisha L Welter

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-93826-4_29

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Preventing Violence and Injury

Jingzhen Yang, Corinne Peek-Asa and Trisha L Welter

Principles and Concepts of Behavioral Medicine, pp.861-884

Springer New York

10/09/2018

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-93826-4_29

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Abstract

Traumatic injuries pose a tremendous health burden globally, causing more than 5 million deaths annually and resulting in more deaths than all other causes combined for people aged 5–44 years. For each injury and death due to violence, thousands of nonfatal injuries require medical treatment, many of which lead to long-term disability. Injuries place a severe physical, emotional, and financial burden on individual victims, their families, and our society. To prevent injuries, many intervention strategies have been used to change individual behaviors and/or policies or to improve technologies and the environment. Using four examples (seat belt use, smoke detector installation, bicycle helmet use, and intimate partner violence prevention), this chapter illustrates how multilevel behavioral approaches and strategies could be utilized to target changes at the individual, family, community, and policy levels to prevent violence and injuries. With widespread implementation of such interventions, thousands of lives could be saved annually.

Behavioral approaches

Bicycle helmets

Injury

Intimate partner violence

Multilevel

Prevention

Seat belts

Smoke detectors

Violence

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Title: Subtitle: Preventing Violence and Injury
Creators: Jingzhen Yang - Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Corinne Peek-Asa - Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
Trisha L Welter - Department of Student Health and Wellness, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Principles and Concepts of Behavioral Medicine, pp.861-884
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-93826-4_29
Publisher: Springer New York; New York, NY
Language: English
Date published: 10/09/2018
Academic Unit: Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Nursing; Public Policy Center (Archive); Community and Behavioral Health
Record Identifier: 9984215144402771

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