C W Runyan

..However, these factors need more careful study. This review considers existing information about occupational injuries among adolescents and identifies needs for research and policy attention...

..Homes are an important setting for nonfatal unintentional injuries. The purpose of this study was to quantify and describe nonfatal, unintentional injuries in the United States, in which the injury took place at home...

..More needs to be known about the prevalence of risk and protective factors for fires, burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning in U.S. households...

..The project employs formative, process, and impact evaluation techniques aimed at improving delivery of the training as well as tracking changes in individual and organizations...

..To describe the working conditions of adolescents employed in construction in North Carolina, documenting hazards, safety practices, and prohibited activities...

..Our goal was to examine the hazard exposures, work experiences, and workplace safety training of adolescents employed in retail and service jobs in the United States...

..Parents were involved in helping their teens with work. Further research should explore how to enhance parental effectiveness by making work safe for teens...

..To identify potential interventions strategies, the article provides examples to demonstrate the utility of developing interventions described in two distinct conceptual frameworks developed by William Haddon...

..Environmental strategies as well as behavioral and administrative measures could be employed to address violence...

..Prior research indicates that working adolescents seek care for the toxic effects of on-the-job chemical and environmental hazard exposures...

..This study was designed to examine the attitudes and beliefs of the parents of working adolescents related to the safety of the employment of their children...

..It is unclear, however, what proportion of these injuries occur in the home. The purpose of this paper is to quantify and describe fatal unintentional injuries that take place in the home environment...

..This paper describes the epidemiology of workplace homicides in North Carolina, with emphasis on the circumstances...

..Social norms imparted by preceptors and the requirements necessary to pass American Board of Pediatrics' examinations are potentially important contributors to physician behavior...

..The United States has one of the highest fire fatality rates in the developed world, and three quarters of these deaths are in residential fires...

..Working alone and at night are risk factors for violent victimization. Findings indicate areas of potential improvement in child labor practices, particularly with respect to training and supervision...

..While few of the preceding risk factors are directly modifiable through workplace interventions, it is important to identify them before developing or evaluating preventive measures...

..Many unintentional injuries occur in the home, but little research has considered the specific vulnerability of people with disabilities...

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..This study examines storage of poisons and firearms among households with older adults, and households where young children reside compared to those where they visit only...

..We investigated child labor violations among US adolescents working in the retail and service industries...

..To examine differences in motor vehicle crash involvement for teenagers in communities with and without school policies enabling teens to drive off campus during lunchtime...

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..To develop and evaluate the characteristics of an instrument for assessing core competencies for injury and violence prevention...

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..Government agencies recommend that employers prevent violence against workers by adopting interventions originally designed to prevent robbery, but the effectiveness of these interventions is unknown...

..Although the hazardous tasks adolescent workers perform in service and retail industries are well documented, little is known about the extent to which young workers recognize these tasks as hazardous or dangerous...

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..To characterize the events and examine suicide precursors among women and to examine gaps in surveillance...

..Pediatricians and primary care physicians need to be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of parenting manuals in providing adequate guidance related to injury prevention...

..To identify the patterns of female intimate partner homicide, to describe the nature of the partner relationships between victims and perpetrators, and to determine the extent of intimate partner violence (IPV) preceding the homicide...

..CONCLUSIONS: Considerable opportunity exists for increased use of antifall protective devices and reduction of fall hazards...

..Vehicle submersion may often be a consequence of deliberately driving into flooded roadways. However, in flood-affected areas, crashes and injuries may also occur when motorists encounter flooded roadways unexpectedly...

..They want to learn about working at the community level (rather than the individual level), developing and evaluating prevention activities, and identifying effective primary prevention programs...

..CONCLUSIONS: Although the methodologic rigor of published articles varies substantially, the literature clearly establishes that firearms are common in U.S. households, even in the homes of medical professionals and those with children...

..To examine the extent to which US women's self-protection strategies are associated with either their personal or vicarious victimization experiences...

..Research on VAW, however, has largely been limited to convenience samples and on variable definitions of violence, hindering our ability to fully characterize this important problem nationally and among subgroups of women...

..We sought to describe the use of discretionary protective equipment among high school athletes and to examine social and behavioral determinants contributing to equipment usage...

..CONCLUSION: Possible explanations for the findings and suggested areas in need of policy change or research are considered...

..This article describes the development and evaluation of VINCENTweb and discusses the implications for developing future Internet-based courses in public health...

..11, 2.72), respectively. This could be due to slippage of the brace during use, increased fatigue due to the energy cost of wearing a brace, or bias in the study. Further investigation into the effects of brace use is warranted...