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Reducing the Burden of Injury: Advancing Prevention and Treatment
causes of death, 142
death review teams, 75 , 184
firearm injuries, 124 , 130 , 134
mortality rates, 49 , 84 , 86 , 124 , 132
poisonings, 48 , 83-84 , 101
trauma care for, 142
Children's Bureau, 206 , 230
Children's National Medical Center, 185
Children's Safety Network, 194 , 197 , 232
Cigarette lighters, child-resistant, 93 , 215
Clinical research, 32 , 130 , 148 , 226 , 227 , 229 , 230
Coalition building, 185 , 190 , 192 , 193 , 198 , 201
Cochrane Collaboration, 198
Coding issues, 29
cause of injury, 63-64 , 65 , 77
location of injury occurrence, 63-64
nature of injury, 62-63
recommendations, 3
training, 3 , 64 , 71
Cohort studies, 6 , 102 , 103
Committee on Injury Prevention and Control, charge to, 20 , 30 , 37
Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS), 231 , 233
Computer models of injury, 98
Conferences, 31 , 192 , 251
Constituency building, 199-200
Consumer Product Safety Act, 21 , 212 , 216
Amendments of 1981, 213
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
achievements, 215-217
hotline, 212
mission and focus, 206 , 212
public education, 214-215
recommended role, 3-4 , 11 , 13 , 16 , 217 , 247 , 249 , 252 , 261
regulatory activities, 21 , 126 , 207 , 213
research, 11 , 93 , 214 , 216-217 , 246 , 247
resources and structure, 212-213
standards development, 207 , 213-214
surveillance activities, 3-4 , 13 , 67 , 70 , 7 , 79 , 125 , 213-214 , 216 , 252 , 261
training role, 249
Controversies
advocacy by researchers, 36
boundaries of injury field, 25
federal priority-setting role, 35-36 , 266-267
firearms-related, 131-132
motor vehicle safety, 121-123
paternalistic interventions, 34-35
Cooperative Compliance Program, 223
Cost-benefit analysis of preventive interventions, 33 , 220 , 222
Costs of injury.
See also Years of potential life lost
direct, 1 n.1, 18 n.1, 41 n.1, 55 , 157 , 158
economic, 41 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56-57 , 97 , 154 , 156-159
estimates, 1 , 18 , 41 n.1, 54
fatalities, 55
friction cost method, 56
human capital (cost-of-illness) method, 54-55 , 56 , 57
indirect, 1 n.1, 18 n.1, 41 n.1, 55 , 56
occupational injuries, 48 , 226
outcomes and, 157
quality of life, 53 , 56 , 57-58
revealed-preference method, 56
stated-preference method, 56
total lifetime, 55
trauma care, 9 , 154 , 156-159 , 168
unreimbursed, 157
willingness-to-pay method, 56-57
worker productivity, 158
Counseling, injury prevention, 191 , 196-197
Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN), 32
Crash Outcome Data Evaluation Systems (CODES), 78
Criminal Justice Periodical Index, 105
Criminal justice system, violence prevention, 88-89
Criminology, 89 , 130
Cutting and piercing injuries, 45 , 49 , 52
Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems (DEEDS), 77 , 147
Databases, 105-106 .
See also Surveillance systems;
individual databases and systems
Death certificate data, 65 , 78
Death review teams, 75 , 184
Deaths. See Cause of injury; Mortality
Demonstrating Your Program's Worth , 198
Department of Agriculture, 206
Department of Commerce, 206
Department of Defense, 206
Department of Education, 195 , 206
Department of Energy, 206
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), 8 , 68 , 69 , 88 , 90 , 134 , 148 , 206 , 239 , 243 , 253
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Division of Child and Maternal Health, 21
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 207 , 239