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Injury prevention is not a new field — why the emphasis on it now?

April 26, 2017emphasis field injury prevention

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Injury prevention is not a new field — why the emphasis on it now?

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Dr. Runyan: Injury prevention has certainly been a problem for a long time, but it’s just been in the last decade or two that people have recognized injury as a public health problem. I think it was all too easy before that to see injury as a problem in a variety of different ways and assume that someone else was going to take care of the problem. I think in recent years, because of the magnitude of the problem and the numbers involved, we have realized that this really requires and deserves public health attention.