TY - JOUR T1 - Public involvement in the production, dissemination and implementation of injury prevention research JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 321 LP - 322 DO - 10.1136/injuryprev-2018-042966 VL - 24 IS - 5 AU - Roderick J McClure AU - Amy Price Y1 - 2018/10/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/5/321.abstract N2 - The practice of injury prevention requires that each of us, as citizens and members of the public whose absolute risk of serious injury is low1 and who believe we are at lower risk than our peers,2 complies with principles and processes that decrease the chance an unlikely event will ever occur. Berkeley might have had some trouble with that.3 Not so much Wittgenstein.4 Injury prevention is a fact, not a thing. Injury is a consequence of relationships between things, and its prevention is achieved by managing those relationships. Injury prevention is not something that can be implemented on people, but with people.If injury prevention cannot be abstracted from the world in which it occurs, then neither can the science that supports it. Injury prevention research and practice exist not in the pages of a journal but in the world of the public citizen. The more the community is engaged in the work published in the … ER -