June 2003, Volume 9, Issue 2

Guest editorials, commentaries, challenges, and accomplishments

• I B Pless

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Exercise: Can we afford to exercise, given current injury rates?

• R J Shephard

Exercise: Sports and recreational injury: the hidden cost of a healthy lifestyle

• S W Marshall,
• K M Guskiewicz

Searching the medical literature

• G Gore

News and notes

Nancy Stout, EdD

Review of evaluations of educational approaches to promote safe storage of firearms

• K S McGee,
• T Coyne-Beasley,
• R M Johnson

Evaluation of Safe Kids Week 2001: prevention of scald and burn injuries in young children

• C Macarthur

Sports and recreation related injury episodes in the US population, 1997–99

• J M Conn,
• J L Annest,
• J Gilchrist

Productivity losses from injury in China

• Y Zhou,
• T D Baker,
• K Rao,
• G Li

Risk compensation theory and voluntary helmet use by cyclists in Spain

• P Lardelli-Claret,
• J de Dios Luna-del-Castillo,
• J J Jiménez-Moleón,
• M García-Martín,
• A Bueno-Cavanillas,
• R Gálvez-Vargas

Observational study of the extent of driving while suspended for alcohol impaired driving

• A T McCartt,
• L L Geary,
• A Berning

A randomised trial of hip protector use by frail older women living in their own homes

• I D Cameron,
• R G Cumming,
• S E Kurrle,
• S Quine,
• K Lockwood,
• G Salkeld,
• T Finnegan

Persistence of effects of a brief intervention on parental restrictions of teen driving privileges

• B G Simons-Morton,
• J L Hartos,
• K H Beck

Buying a handgun for someone else: firearm dealer willingness to sell

• S B Sorenson,
• K A Vittes

Impact of handgun types on gun assault outcomes: a comparison of gun assaults involving semiautomatic pistols and revolvers

• D C Reedy,
• C S Koper

A new approach to the analysis of multiple injuries using data from a national trauma registry

• L Aharonson-Daniel,
• V Boyko,
• A Ziv,
• M Avitzour,
• K Peleg

Characteristics of drowning by different age groups

• L Quan,
• P Cummings

Car seatbelt use during pregnancy in Japan: determinants and policy implications

• M Ichikawa,
• S Nakahara,
• T Okubo,
• S Wakai

Damaging documents expose industry evasion over fire safe cigarettes

Differential ranking of causes of fatal versus non-fatal injuries among US children

• M F Ballesteros,
• R A Schieber,
• J Gilchrist,
• P Holmgreen,
• J L Annest

Children's bicycle helmet use and injuries in Hillsborough County, Florida before and after helmet legislation

• K D Liller,
• J Nearns,
• M Cabrera,
• B Joly,
• V Noland,
• R McDermott

Validation of a home safety questionnaire used in a randomised controlled trial

• M Watson,
• D Kendrick,
• C Coupland

Routine narrative analysis as a screening tool to improve data quality

• S J Jones,
• R A Lyons

Violent attacks on Middle Easterners in the United States during the month following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

• M H Swahn,
• R R Mahendra,
• L J Paulozzi,
• R L Winston,
• G A Shelley,
• J Taliano,
• L Frazier,
• J R Saul

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• M Wise

Driving Lessons. Exploring systems that make traffic safer.: Edited by J P Rothe. (Pp 343.) University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2002. ISBN 0-88864- 370-5.

• C Adams

Splinters & Fragments