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Injury in Late Life: II. Prevention
Author(s) -
HOGUE CAROL C.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1982.tb07102.x
Subject(s) - medicine , injury prevention , event (particle physics) , poison control , suicide prevention , occupational safety and health , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , pathology , physics , quantum mechanics
Contemporary, systematic approaches to injury prevention are presented as guides for considering needless death and disability of older people because of falls, burns, and vehicular crashes. Injury results from an unfavorable relationship between etiologic agent and host within a particular environmental setting. Abnormal energy exchange is the agent. Injury prevention strategies are sometimes aimed at the agent and other times at reducing exposure or susceptibility. By considering phases of the injury event (pre‐event, event, and post‐event), and the agent, host, and environment in each phase, a wide variety of options can be developed for preventing injury or minimizing the consequences of those which do occur.