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Public health has made our lives safer - but it often works behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, 'while we are sleeping'. This book illuminates how public health works with more than sixty success stories drawn from the area of injury and violence prevention.

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"Faculty teaching courses in injury prevention will find this a useful addition to their syllabi... It also may help inspire the next generation of researchers and practitioners." Injury Prevention "This book is well written and shows that public health covers a lot of areas." Annuals Of Emergency Medicine

Table of Contents
List of Tables Preface Introduction Poem: The Ambulance in the Valley, by Joseph Mahin 1. Car 2. Home 3. Work 4. Play 5. Nature 6. Violence 7. Medical Treatment 8. Models of Injury Prevention 9. Future Successes 10. Summary Appendix: Scientific Injury Studies References Index

While We Were Sleeping

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    A Paperback / softback by David Hemenway

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 04/05/2009
      ISBN13: 9780520258464, 978-0520258464
      ISBN10: 0520258460
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      History of medicine Violence and abuse in society

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Public health has made our lives safer - but it often works behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, 'while we are sleeping'. This book illuminates how public health works with more than sixty success stories drawn from the area of injury and violence prevention.

      Trade Review
      "Faculty teaching courses in injury prevention will find this a useful addition to their syllabi... It also may help inspire the next generation of researchers and practitioners." Injury Prevention "This book is well written and shows that public health covers a lot of areas." Annuals Of Emergency Medicine

      Table of Contents
      List of Tables Preface Introduction Poem: The Ambulance in the Valley, by Joseph Mahin 1. Car 2. Home 3. Work 4. Play 5. Nature 6. Violence 7. Medical Treatment 8. Models of Injury Prevention 9. Future Successes 10. Summary Appendix: Scientific Injury Studies References Index

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