Injury Prevention
is an online-only, peer reviewed journal covering content on all injury prevention in all contexts.
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New Editor-in-Chief appointed
We are delighted to announce that Professor Caroline Finch has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief for Injury Prevention.
Professor Finch is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Vice-President at Edith Cowan University in Australia. While best known for her sports injury prevention research, she has expertise in leading injury prevention research drawing on multiple research disciplines.
Ranked in the top 10% for career-long impact across all fields of research globally, she has received international recognition for her contributions. In 2015, she was awarded the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Distinguished International Career Award. The Australian Government awarded her an Order of Australia (AO) in 2018 in recognition of her distinguished service to sports medicine. Most recently, she was awarded the Australasian Injury Prevention Network’s (AIPN) Special Award for Sustained Achievement in Injury Prevention.
Professor Finch officially took up her post as Editor-in-Chief on 1st January 2023, succeeding Professor Rod McClure.
Latest Articles
Correction:
Correction: Costs attributable to criminal justice involvement in injuries: a systematic review24 March 2023
Special feature:
The time is now: advancing shared risk and protective factor approaches to injury and violence prevention24 March 2023
Original research:
Mechanisms of traumatic injury by demographic characteristics: an 8-year review of temporal trends from the National Trauma Data Bank20 March 2023
Abstracts: Safety 2022
Injury Prevention was the official journal of Safety 2022, the 14th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, which took place 27-30 November 2022 in Adelaide, Australia.
Current Issue
Original research:
Burden of road traffic injuries in Iran: a national and subnational perspective, 1990-201921 March 2023
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Does binge drinking mediate the relationship between four adverse childhood experiences and adult traumatic brain injury? Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort21 March 2023
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Major trauma among E-Scooter and bicycle users: a nationwide cohort study21 March 2023
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Interventions to change parental parenting behaviour to reduce unintentional childhood injury: a randomised controlled trial21 March 2023
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Original research:
Major trauma among E-Scooter and bicycle users: a nationwide cohort study21 March 2023
Original research:
Burden of road traffic injuries in Iran: a national and subnational perspective, 1990−201921 March 2023
Original research:
Mechanisms of traumatic injury by demographic characteristics: an 8-year review of temporal trends from the National Trauma Data Bank20 March 2023
Original research:
Self-harm in adolescence and risk of crash: a 13-year cohort study of novice drivers in New South Wales, Australia22 February 2023
Original research:
Factor analysis of community-ranked built environment factors contributing to pedestrian injury risk in Kampala city, Uganda1 February 2023
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Gun violence restraining orders in California, 2016–2018: case details and respondent mortality2 June 2022
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Effect of a new concussion substitute rule on medical assessment of head collision events in Premier League football24 November 2022