Oporia, Frederick Nuwaha, Fred Kobusingye, Olive Jagnoor, Jagnoor Makumbi, Fredrick Edward Isunju, John Bosco Kibira, Simon P S
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Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
Occupational drowning is a growing public health concern globally. The human cost of fishing is highest in sub-Saharan Africa. Although lifejackets prevent drowning, the majority of boaters in Uganda do not wear them. We developed and validated a peer-to-peer training manual to improve lifejacket wear among occupational boaters on Lake Albert, Ugan...
Kinteh, Bakary Bass, Paul
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Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
Although occupational injuries among building construction workers are a major public health concern, limited studies have focused on the prevalence and factors associated with injuries among building construction workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Accordingly, this study investigates the prevalence and factors associated with occupational injuries amo...
Corrick, Shaina Lesyk, Nicholas Yang, Esther Campbell, Sandra Villa-Roel, Cristina Rowe, Brian H
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This systematic review aimed to identify research involving adults presenting to the emergency department (ED) with a concussion to document the reporting of sex and/or gender according to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) guidelines, the prevalence of sex and gender-based analysis (SGBA) and to summarise sex and/or gender-based dif...
Orces, Carlos H
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The present study analysed data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Programme to examine trends in emergency department visits (EDs) for fall-related fractures in adults aged 65 years or older between 2001 and 2020. Overall, the estimated number of ED's visits for fall-related fractures increased from 574 000 in 2001 ...
Cullen, Patricia Mőller, Holger Baffsky, Rachel Martiniuk, Alexandra Senserrick, Teresa Rogers, Kris Woodward, Mark Stevenson, Mark R McLean, Rebecca Sawyer, Susan
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Self-harm and suicide are leading causes of morbidity and death for young people, worldwide. Previous research has identified self-harm is a risk factor for vehicle crashes, however, there is a lack of long-term crash data post licensing that investigates this relationship. We aimed to determine whether adolescent self-harm persists as crash risk f...
Gustavsson, Johanna Nilson, Finn Bonander, Carl
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Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
Compliant flooring may prevent fall injuries in residential care, but evidence is inconclusive. We investigate compliant sports floors and fall-related injuries in a residential care setting and update a meta-analysis from a recent systematic review on compliant flooring. A non-randomised study comparing outcomes in a residential care unit that ins...
Bayiga-Zziwa, Esther Nsubuga, Rogers Mutto, Milton
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Examining community perspective on an issue is not only a key consideration in research on road safety but also on other topics. There is substantial theoretical and empirical knowledge on built environment factors that contribute to pedestrian injury but how the community views these factors is least studied and constitutes the focus of this study...
Conrick, Kelsey M Adhia, Avanti Ellyson, Alice Haviland, Miriam Joan Lyons, Vivian H Mills, Brianna Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali
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To identify an approach in measuring the association between structural racism and racial disparities in firearm homicide victimisation focusing on racism, rather than race. We examined associations of six measures of structural racism (Black/white disparity ratios in poverty, education, labour force participation, rental housing, single-parent hou...
Neki, Kazuyuki Gutierrez, Hialy Mitra, Sudeshna Temesgen, Awoke M Mbugua, Leah Watetu Balasubramaniyan, Ramshankar Winer, Mercer Roberts, Jaeda Vos, Theo Hamilton, Erin
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Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
There are large discrepancies between official statistics of traffic injuries in African countries and estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study and WHO's Global Status Reports on Road Safety (GSRRS). We sought to assess the magnitude of the discrepancy in Ethiopia, its implications and how it can be addressed. We systematically searc...
Taylor, Michael James Orton, Elizabeth Patel, Tina Timblin, Clare Clarke, Rachel Watson, Michael Craig Hayes, Mike Jones, Matthew Coupland, Carol Kendrick, Denise
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Evaluate the effectiveness of systematically delivered evidence-based home safety promotion for improving child home safety practices. Controlled before-and-after study. Nine electoral wards in Nottingham, UK. 361 families with children aged 2-7 months at recruitment living in four intervention wards with high health, education and social need; and...
