Preventing Suicides – Why I Do What I Do at the Injury Center
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By IIRU
Members of the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU), including director, Adnan Hyder and associate director, Aruna Chandran, along with colleagues from Aga Khan University (AKU) in Pakistan, recently published a paper in the International Journal of Pediatrics. The article, titled, “Childhood Unintentional Injuries: Need for a Community-Based Home Injury Risk Assessment in Pakistan,” [...]
Original post: Dr. Lee Annest: Why I Do What I Do at the Injury Center
By Humanosphere
What’s the biggest killer in Africa? Not AIDS or malaria. It’s road accidents. “The challenge of stopping this carnage is one of the greatest development challenges of our day, yet the sheer scale of the problem is not widely recognized.” Source: Guardian This year, more than 1.3 million people will die as a result of … Continue reading →
Please visit the CDC Injury Center 20th Anniversary web site for toolkits, talking points, and other resources to help us commemorate our 20 years, and to spread the word about injury and violence prevention. I have many stories that I could tell about injuries and violence, from both my professional and personal lives. One of my nephews was diagnosed with depression when he was in high school. He was treated, eventually finished school, and graduated from college at the age of 25. He was accepted to law school, but tragically, he died by suicide shortly after receiving his acceptance letter
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Guest blogger: Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, MPH, LCDR, U.S.
With World Pneumonia Day having just passed, the topic of clean cookstoves resurfaced. The conversation about clean cookstoves revolves around their hazardous and life threatening affect on women and children, producing indoor air pollution. But they create another hazardous and life threatening situation for women and children, which is much less talked about, burns. Most [...]
Hey guys, I’m Zach Veach and I’m 16 years old. For those of you who don’t know me, I am a race car driver for Andretti Autosport, Michael Andretti’s team.
On September 11, 2001, terrorists flying hijacked passenger plans, attacked the World Trade Center Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. A fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa. More than 2,900 lives were lost. As the tenth anniversary of September 11 attacks approaches, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg [...]
It may seem rather unusual to talk about injuries and weather in the same context, but extreme weather can pose significant risks for many kinds of injury. Currently, many parts of the United States are experiencing a major heat wave, with record-setting heat and heat indices over the next few weeks. As we have seen in the recent past, deaths are occurring from heat-related and possibly from participation in outside activities that increase the risk of heat-related illness. During the month of August, many athletes train for the fall sports season, sometimes participating in two practices a day over the course of a few weeks. While training is necessary and important for athletes to build up their stamina and to improve their performance, health consequences can be deadly if proper precautions are not taken. Athletes who do not participate in organized sports events, but remain active outdoors also need to exercise caution and make decisions about what will keep them healthy. Even people who perform everyday outdoor activities are at risk and need to ensure that they are taking steps to prevent illness. In addition to athletes, those at risk for heat-related illness include the older adults and the very young. When temperatures are extreme, outdoor exercise should take place during the cooler times of the day—in the early morning or late evening. Hydration is critical—drinking water at regular intervals will help to replace fluid lost through perspiration, and will also help to keep the body temperature cooler. Perspiring is one of the body’s natural cooling methods, but to provide this cooling; the body must be well hydrated.
