RT Book, Section
A1 Dicker, Rochelle A.
A1 Juillard, Catherine J.
A2 Moore, Ernest E.
A2 Feliciano, David V.
A2 Mattox, Kenneth L.
SR Print(0)
ID 1147413455
T1 Injury Prevention
T2 Trauma, 8e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847292
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1147413455
RD 2024/04/20
AB Injury  is  a  leading  cause  of  death,  disability  and  health  care  costs  worldwide.  The  Global  Burden  of  Disease  Study,  which  creates  a  unique  framework  by  which  to  assess  national  trends  in  all-cause  and  cause-specific  mortality  and  morbidity,  has  shed  light  on  the  burden  of  injury  relative  to  the  denominator  of  all  morbidity  and  mortality.1  This  research  and  other  prominent  publications  have  been  instrumental  in  moving  injury  to  a  level  of  recognition  commensurate  with  its  level  of  disease  burden.  Injury  has  begun  to  gain  recognition  as  a  prominent  public  health  issue  as  thought  leaders,  researchers,  and  clinicians  are  vigorously  studying  the  issues  within  a  framework  by  which  prevention  efforts,  trauma  systems,  and  advocacy  strategies  can  be  developed  and  maintained.