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Looking to the future

Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Box 359960, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA (Tel: +1 206 521 1530, fax: +1 206 521 1562, e-mail: fpr@u.washington.edu)

Keywords: violence; advocacy; FoWoCo; double standards; lamentations

I am writing this having just returned from the 4th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control in Amsterdam, although you will be reading it some months later. The ISCAIP conference was a great success; many felt it was one of the highlights of the entire meeting. From this conference and the ISCAIP business meeting, a number of important issues relating to the future of ISCAIP were discussed.

Inclusion of intentional injuries
The conference featured a lively debate and a straw poll on whether ISCAIP should include intentional injuries in its scope and mission. The debaters and attendees concluded that the answer to this question is overwhelmingly yes. While respecting the views of dissenters, most believe that ISCAIP should be concerned with injuries to children and adolescents regardless of how they occur, and that in fact determination of intent is often difficult, sometimes impossible, and occasionally irrelevant. In many situations, prevention may be the . . . [Full text of this article]

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