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Conclusion
  1. Stephen Jarvis1,
  2. Jo Sibert2
  1. 1Department of Child Health, University of Newcastle
  2. 2Department of Child Health, University of Wales College of Medicine
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor Stephen Jarvis, Community Child Health, Donald Court House, 13 Walker Terrace, Gateshead NE8 1EB
 (e-mail: s.n.jarvis{at}ncl.ac.uk).

https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.4.2008.S46

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    Injury is the leading cause of death and acquired disability in the UK in young people. The costs to the nation are of the order of £15 billion per annum of which at least £1.5 billion is direct treatment costs. This alone should signal the need for major investment in policy development, in coordinated injury surveillance, and in the search for effective interventions to address this issue. By comparison with coronary heart disease or cancer, our resource commitment to this problem in the UK is minimal.

    To be on a par with the USA or Australasia, we need to greatly expand our injury prevention programmes within health and local authorities. Implementing what is known and bringing the necessary investment in injury prevention to bear in those socially deprived communities at most risk is a task which crosses the boundaries between government departments and should become a central duty for collaborative …

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