Table of contents

Original articles

• The National Violent Death Reporting System: overview and future directions (30 December, 2015)

  Janet M Blair, Katherine A Fowler, Shane P D Jack, Alexander E Crosby
• Practical applications of injury surveillance: a brief 25-year history of the Connecticut Injury Prevention Center (4 January, 2016)

  Garry Lapidus, Kevin Borrup, Susan DiVietro, Brendan T Campbell, Rebecca Beebe, Damion Grasso, Steven Rogers, D'Andrea Joseph, Leonard Banco
• Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS): towards a global surveillance system (4 April, 2016)

  Laura F Chiang, Howard Kress, Steven A Sumner, Jessie Gleckel, Philbert Kawemama, Rebecca N Gordon
• Burden Calculator: a simple and open analytical tool for estimating the population burden of injuries (9 December, 2015)

  Kavi Bhalla, James E Harrison
• Data visualisation in surveillance for injury prevention and control: conceptual bases and case studies (4 January, 2016)

  Ramon Martinez, Pedro Ordunez, Patricia N Soliz, Michael F Ballesteros
• Harnessing information from injury narratives in the ‘big data’ era: understanding and applying machine learning for injury surveillance (4 January, 2016)

  Kirsten Vallmuur, Helen R Marucci-Wellman, Jennifer A Taylor, Mark Lehto, Helen L Corns, Gordon S Smith
• Use of syndromic surveillance data to monitor poisonings and drug overdoses in state and local public health agencies (4 April, 2016)

  Amy Ising, Scott Proescholdbell, Katherine J Harmon, Nidhi Sachdeva, Stephen W Marshall, Anna E Waller
• All Wales Injury Surveillance System revised: development of a population-based system to evaluate single-level and multilevel interventions (9 December, 2015)

  Ronan A Lyons, Samantha Turner, Jane Lyons, Angharad Walters, Helen A Snooks, Judith Greenacre, Ciaran Humphreys, Sarah J Jones
• The design and evaluation of a system for improved surveillance and prevention programmes in resource-limited settings using a hospital-based burn injury questionnaire (4 April, 2016)

  Michael Peck, Henry Falk, David Meddings, David Sugerman, Sumi Mehta, Michael Sage