Injury Prevention Podcast

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; - Runy

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. 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.

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

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;

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 roa

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

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

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.100021

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.

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

Drowning is a major cause of unintentional childhood death. Along with colleagues, Rohit P Shenoi, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Texas, investigated the relationship between childhood swimming pool submersions, neighbourhood sociodemographics, housing type and swimming pool location was examined in Harris County, Texas. He tells Brian Johnston what they found. Read the paper, for free: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/4/245.full

William Haddon Jr developed his conceptual model, the Haddon matrix, by applying basic principles of public health to the problem of traffic safety. In 1998, Carol Runyan expanded on his work with the seminal paper “Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension” that expanded on the matrix and its utility by adding a decision-making dimension based on principles of policy analysis. This paper made an important contribution to the injury prevention field as it provided straightforward and useful guidance on how to apply and use an already familiar tool to better support evidence-based decision-making. In this podcast, Dr Runyan, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, and J Morag MacKay, European Child Safety Alliance discuss the impact of the work and, given the current challenges decision makers face in translating research into action, how this framework remains relevant today. Read the papers: Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/2

As Injury Prevention turns 20 we're taking a look back at some of the most influential papers we've published in our Anniversary Archives, starting with Fred Rivara et al's “Epidemiology of bicycle injuries and risk factors for serious injury”. Using data from their seminal case–control study on bicycle helmet effectiveness, the study reported on crash circumstances, helmet use and injury outcomes to identify prevention opportunities. This study was part of a broader intellectual effort to engage rigorous epidemiological science in the gritty real-world work of injury prevention: identifying modifiable crash risk factors, measuring helmet effectiveness and putting this knowledge to work in a large controlled community campaign. Here Brian Johnston talks to Fred Rivara, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, and commentators Beth Ebel, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, and Brent Hagel, Department of Paediatrics, University of Calgary. Read the papers:

The Minnesota Department of Health conducted an exploratory epidemiologic investigation into the health care burden of illicit synthetic drug (ISD) use in Duluth, Minnesota. Staff reviewed medical records of 78 patients with suspected ISD use who were treated in emergency departments at two Duluth-area hospitals from January through September 2013. The analysis showed use of ISDs has the potential to create a significant burden on the health care system and public services, and that effective prevention and response strategies need to be developed. In this podcast, study authors Mark Kinde, Unit Leader for the Injury and Violence Prevention Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, Ruth Lynfield, State Epidemiologist and Medical Director for the Minnesota Department of Health, and Sarah Dugan, Research Analyst, Injury and Violence Prevention Unit, Minnesota Department of Health, discuss the work and its findings. Read the full paper here: http://www.minnesotamedicine.com/Portals/mnmed/February%202014/

Successful injury prevention requires identification and targeting of particularly vulnerable groups, but little is known about injury vulnerability patterns in Sudan. Safa Abdalla, Sudanese Public Health Consultancy Group, aimed to fill this gap using survey data, and here Brian Johnston asks her what she found. Read the full paper: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/20/5/310.full

In the USA, 384 children died due to hyperthermia between 2003 and 2012 while unattended in an enclosed vehicle. Paediatric vehicular hyperthermia persists as a highly preventable form of heat-related death. A study recently published in IP has described temperature change throughout the workday in an enclosed vehicle in Austin, Texas across the calendar year, to examine the risk of hyperthermia to children trapped in vehicles. Brian Johnston talks to lead author, Sarah V Duzinski, Trauma Services, Dell Children's Medical Center, Austin, Texas. Read the paper in full, for free: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/20/4/220.full

This podcast focuses on the collection of high school athlete sports injury data by the University of South Florida Sports Medicine and Athletic Related Trauma Institute (SMART). SMART developed an injury surveillance tool to collect detailed sports injury risk factor and outcome data for high school athletes in west central Florida beginning in 2007. Since 2012 SMART has joined the Reporting Information Online (RIO) network for high school athletes’ sports injury data collection. The lead researcher for the SMART injury surveillance research is Dr Karen Liller, Professor and AAAS Fellow in the University of South Florida College of Public Health. The Director of SMART is Dr Barbara Morris. Together they provide information on the origins of SMART, the data collection process, latest results, and plans for the future in this podcast. About the presenters: Dr. Karen Liller is a professor and AAAS Fellow in the University of South Florida College of Public Health. Her teaching, research, and service

Brian Johnston talks to Guoqing Hu, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, China, about what his analysis of injury prevention research published in China between 2001 and 2010 reveals. Read the full paper (for free) http://goo.gl/bNZz51

Brian Johnston, IP Editor in Chief, talks to Gregory Istre and Mary McCoy, Injury Prevention Center of Greater Dallas, about their latest research into the impact of community-based smoke alarm distribution programmes on the occurrence of house fire-related deaths and injuries. Read the full research: http://goo.gl/mg7JCa

Sports concussion, especially among youth, has become a topic of major interest to parents, athletes, coaches and physicians. While much is known about the topic, there is a great deal that is not known, especially about concussions in children. Dr Fred Rivara, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington discusses some of the current issues and controversies.