@article{b1578f686dba4b74ba37625250f77b9f,
title = "Pediatric injury prevention for the practitioner",
author = "Widome, \{Mark D.\}",
note = "Funding Information: Research and Funding Traditionally, injury research has been dramatically underfunded by the federal government in relation to the importance of injuries as a public health problem. In 1985 federal government funding for injury research was \$112 million compared with \$624 million spent annually for heart disease and stroke and nearly \$1 billion spent for cancer research. This is despite the fact that more person-years of productive life are lost by Americans to injury than to cancer and cardiovascular disease combined.27 Pediatric injury research is funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the Federal Office of Maternal and Child Health (OMCH). The CDC has emerged as the lead agency for coordination of injury research in this country. The CDC currently funds eight Injury Prevention Research Centers in academic institutions. These centers are developing a multidisciplinary capacity to conduct epidemiologic or biomechanics research, to evaluate injury prevention interventions, and to train injury prevention professionals. Broad goals of injury prevention for the next decade are embodied in the Department of Health and Human Services report Healthy People: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for the Year 2000.47 Within this report, which was a collaborative effort of the Institute of Medicine, the Public Health Service, and several hundred national organizations, are a number of injury prevention goals for children, to be achieved between now and the end of the cen-tury. Examples are given in Table 2.",
year = "1991",
doi = "10.1016/0045-9380(91)90077-X",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "21",
pages = "428--468",
journal = "Current Problems in Pediatrics",
issn = "0045-9380",
publisher = "Mosby Inc.",
number = "10",
}