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INJURY CONTROL: A STATE‐OF‐THE‐ART REVIEW
Author(s) -
Wigglesworth E. C.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1977.tb04280.x
Subject(s) - medicine , blame , toll , phenomenon , accidental , dissemination , state (computer science) , sociology of scientific knowledge , public relations , psychiatry , law , epistemology , immunology , philosophy , physics , political science , acoustics , algorithm , computer science
There is a growing body of new knowledge suggesting that trauma should no longer be conceptualized as a behavioural phenomenon with the associated connotations of chance, unexpectedness and blame worthiness. Instead, it should be regarded as a public health problem amenable to scientific, research‐based strategies of the type that have been successfully introduced in the fight to conquer infectious disease. If progress is to be made in reducing the toll of accidental mortality and morbidity, the current need is for the increased allocation of resources to develop, extend and disseminate this new knowledge.