September 2003, Volume 9, Issue 3

State of the journal report

• I B Pless

Playground injuries

• M MacKay

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News and notes

Traffic calming for the prevention of road traffic injuries: systematic review and meta-analysis

• F Bunn,
• T Collier,
• C Frost,
• K Ker,
• I Roberts,
• R Wentz

Safety in numbers: more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and bicycling

• P L Jacobsen

Injury and frequency of use of playground equipment in public schools and parks in Brisbane, Australia

• J W Nixon,
• C H C Acton,
• B Wallis,
• M F Ballesteros,
• D Battistutta

Trends in hospitalization after injury: older women are displacing young men

• T Shinoda-Tagawa,
• D E Clark

Evaluation of North Carolina child care safety regulations

• J B Kotch,
• J M Hussey,
• A Carter

Injuries among disabled children: a study from Greece

• E Petridou,
• S Kedikoglou,
• E Andrie,
• T Farmakakis,
• A Tsiga,
• M Angelopoulos,
• N Dessypris,
• D Trichopoulos

Community based program to improve firearm storage practices in rural Alaska

• A Horn,
• D C Grossman,
• W Jones,
• L R Berger

Identification of risk factors for non-fatal child injury in a rural area: Keokuk County Rural Health Study

• D L Nordstrom,
• C Zwerling,
• A M Stromquist,
• L F Burmeister,
• J A Merchant

Farm work practices and farm injuries in Colorado

• L Stallones,
• C Beseler

Nighttime driving, passenger transport, and injury crash rates of young drivers

• T M Rice,
• C Peek-Asa,
• J F Kraus

Motor vehicle crash fatalities by race/ethnicity in Arizona, 1990–96

• D Campos-Outcalt,
• C Bay,
• A Dellapena,
• M K Cota

Effect of Italy’s motorcycle helmet law on traumatic brain injuries

• F Servadei,
• C Begliomini,
• E Gardini,
• M Giustini,
• F Taggi,
• J Kraus

Etienne Krug, MD, MPH

Home delivery of an injury prevention kit for children in four French cities: a controlled randomized trial

• M Sznajder,
• S Leduc,
• M P Janvrin,
• M H Bonnin,
• P Aegerter,
• F Baudier,
• B Chevallier

Trends in serious head injuries among English cyclists and pedestrians

• A Cook,
• A Sheikh

Lessons for increasing awareness and use of booster seats in a Latino community

• J W Lee,
• K Fitzgerald,
• B E Ebel

Immediate care of school sport injury

• L Abernethy,
• D MacAuley,
• O McNally,
• S McCann

Design and implementation of injury prevention curricula for elementary schools: lessons learned

• R Azeredo,
• S Stephens-Stidham

Development of a multidisciplinary method to determine risk factors for arm fracture in falls from playground equipment

• S Sherker,
• J Ozanne-Smith,
• G Rechnitzer,
• R Grzebieta

Can martial arts falling techniques prevent injuries?

• F J Leavitt

New trends in suicide in Japan

• E B R Desapriya,
• N Iwase

Further reflections on the seatbelt use and effectiveness issue

• L S Robertson

Precautionary principle

• G Li

Accidental Injury: Biomechanics and Prevention. 2nd Ed.: Edited by Alan M Nahum and John W Melvin. (Pp 577; $165.00.) Springer-Verlag, 2001. ISBN 0-387-98820-3.

• K Arbogast,
• F Winston

Looking Beneath the Surface of Agricultural Safety and Health.: Dennis J Murphy. (Pp 104.) Published by American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 2003 (ASAE Pub 801M0303). ISBN 1-802769-28-X.

• B Lee

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference.: By Malcolm Gladwell. (Pp 279; US$14.95.) Little, Brown and Company, January 2002. ISBN 0-349-11346-7.

• A Seay

Getting Research Findings into Practice. 2nd Ed.: Edited by Andrew Haines and Anna Donald. (Pp 240; £19.95.) London: BMJ Publishing Group, November 2001. ISBN 0-7279-1257-7.

• A K Macpherson

Correction

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