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Interactive: The Facts Hurt

See How States Score on Injury Prevention

See How States Score on Injury Prevention

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.

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A Model Injury-Prevention Program for Children and Adolescents

A Model Injury-Prevention Program for Children and Adolescents

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.

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Hospital Partnerships to Cure Violence

Hospital Partnerships to Cure Violence

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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Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships

Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships

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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Interactive Map: Injury Prevention in the United States

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.

The Facts Hurt

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.

Graduated Driver Licensing Decal Law

October 23, 2012 | Journal Article

Teen drivers may not like it, but New Jersey's pioneering graduated driving license decal law is estimated to have prevented more than 1,600 crashes.

Neurocritical Care Program Improves Outcomes for Children with Traumatic Brain Injuries

March 4, 2013 | Story

Interdisciplinary team improves care process and likelihood of full recovery.

Take Action to Stop Gun Violence

December 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

E. Alison Holman studies early cognitive predictors of long-term adjustment following trauma, and how people cope with highly stressful experiences with special interest in understanding how trauma affects long-term mental and physical health.

RWJF Scholars Honored for Pioneering Work in Injury Prevention Research

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.

Depression of Whole-Brain Oxygen Extraction Fraction is Associated with Poor Outcome in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

February 1, 2012 | Journal Article

This study measures the oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) to gauge metabolic abnormalities by using a magnetic resonance (MR) technique. This study supports previous studies' findings: OEF is decreased in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, and correlates with the severity of the injury.

For Brain Injury Survivors, New Ways to Connect

May 19, 2012 | Story

With her RWJF grant, a Community Health Leader funds an online program that brings brain injury survivors together despite distances and disabilities.

One Child Dies of an Unintentional Injury Every Hour

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 ...

Bringing Failing Brain Cells Back

February 28, 2012 | Story

With RWJF support, Harold Amos Scholar researches a promising approach to treating traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents.

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