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National Public Health Week 2011: Safety is No Accident

Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN Looking back at my experience in the field of injury prevention and control, I can easily see how important partnerships have been in our efforts to decrease the toll...

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One Small Step Together: One Giant Leap for Our Nation’s Health

Last week, National Public Health Week (NPHW) focused on injury and violence prevention – keeping people safe and realizing the goal of ensuring that people live injury-free.  It was a week where a...

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Stories of Injury and Violence Prevention: Celebrating the Past, Protecting...

Please visit the CDC Injury Center 20th Anniversary web site for toolkits, talking points, and other resources to help us commemorate our 20 years, and to spread the word about injury and violence...

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Dr. Lee Annest: Why I Do What I Do at the Injury Center

Guest Blogger: Lee Annest, Ph.D, MS   Dr. Lee Annest You see crashes on the roads all of the time, but you don’t ever think it’ll actually happen to you.  My wife and I were driving down a crowded...

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Recovering from TBI – Why I Do What I Do at the Injury Center

   Guest blogger: Jessica Burke    Jessica's car after the crash I could be a web developer anywhere. So, why do I choose to work at CDC’s Injury Center?   It’s because I know what it means to suffer a...

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Seeing My World through A Safer Lens

We are excited to see how injury and violence professionals, students, and the general public can showcase what injury and violence prevention looks like in their own communities through the “Seeing My...

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Keeping People Safe on the Road: Why I Do What I Do at the CDC Injury Center

On this Boulevard de La Madeleine, Paris France, Dr. David Sleet was struck by a car – his pedestrian story impacts the work he does for the CDC Injury Center. Guest blogger: David Sleet, PhD I was a...

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Back to School: Making Safety First on Your List

Guest Blogger: Wendy Holmes, MS Back-to-school season seems to usher a school bus load of paper into our home. It starts with a cheerful postcard showing my child’s new teacher. Then comes the packet...

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Seeing Creativity at Work in Injury and Violence Prevention

  I still vividly remember my days working at a trauma center, treating victims of violence and traumatic events and working with communities to help prevent violence and injuries from happening in the...

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5 Ways to Keep Teens Safe on the Road

One of the most difficult things about working in the emergency department was making a phone call.  Not just any phone call, but a call at midnight, or 2 a.m., a call to a parent who might be waiting...

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National Public Health Week: “Public Health is ROI” – Saving Lives, Saving...

Injuries and violence kill 180,000 people each year.  Motor vehicle crashes, falls, homicides, and other types of injury events kill more people in the first half of life than any other cause —...

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Making your Injury Center blog experience better [Survey]

CLICK on the image to start taking the survey now! You are here because you want the latest information on how to best prevent violence and injuries in your own communities, states, and the nation....

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One Small Step Together: One Giant Leap for Our Nation’s Health

Last week, National Public Health Week (NPHW) focused on injury and violence prevention – keeping people safe and realizing the goal of ensuring that people live injury-free.  It was a week where a...

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Multitasking is Dangerous: Don’t be a distracted driver behind the wheel

If you think that your ability to text, talk, or email while driving is impressive… think again! It’s dangerous, and it can lead to a dangerous situation on the road. We may feel compelled to check our...

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KIDS: Draw, Paint, Create— Be Heads Up about Concussion Safety

When you watch a child’s creativity come to life, you can see how their imaginations help them describe the world around them. Through their artwork, they can share their thoughts and ideas with a...

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Core VIPP: Empowering States to Take Action To Put an End to Violence and...

The headlines are all too familiar: A teen driver is killed just months after getting his license. A high school football player suffers a head injury after a tackle during practice. A mother overdoses...

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