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ERIC Number: EJ1056865
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Apr
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1090-1981
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Preventing Unintentional Injuries in the Home Using the Health Impact Pyramid
Mack, Karin A.; Liller, Karen D.; Baldwin, Grant; Sleet, David
Health Education & Behavior, v42 n1 suppl p115S-122S Apr 2015
Injuries continue to be the leading cause of death for the first four decades of life. These injuries result from a confluence of behavioral, physical, structural, environmental, and social factors. Taken together, these illustrate the importance of taking a broad and multileveled approach to injury prevention. Using examples from fall, fire, scald, and poisoning-related injuries, this article illustrates the utility of an approach that incorporates a social-environmental perspective in identifying and selecting interventions to improve the health and safety of individuals. Injury prevention efforts to prevent home injuries benefit from multilevel modifications of behavior, public policy, laws and enforcement, the environment, consumer products and engineering standards, as demonstrated with Frieden's Health Impact Pyramid. A greater understanding, however, is needed to explain the associations between tiers. While interventions that include modifications of the social environment are being field-tested, much more work needs to be done in measuring social-environmental change and in evaluating these programs to disentangle what works best.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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