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Prevention Institute Articles

Aging and Mobility: Current Issues

October 2004

This article frames current issues related to traffic safety, mobility, and aging, examines factors that influence transportation options and use, and discusses efforts and strategies for enhancing safe mobility for seniors.

Child Occupant Protection: Current Issues

October 2002

Discusses current trends and issues related to child safety seat technology, legislation, and use.

The Importance of Injury Prevention

October 2004

This letter to the editor appeared in the October 2004 issue of The American Journal of Public Health.

Seatbelts: Current Issues

October 2002

This article provides background on the evolution of seatbelt technology and laws, and discusses current issues related to seatbelt use.

The Spectrum of Prevention: Developing a Comprehensive Approach to Injury Prevention

1999

Published in Injury Prevention, this article delineates the Spectrum of Prevention and illustrates its application to injury and violence prevention. The article also emphasizes the importance of changes in policies and norms to enhance the effectiveness of prevention initiatives.

Traffic Safety Center Newsletter

Prevention Institute staff contribute articles to the University of California Berkeley's Traffic Safety Center Newsletter. Topics explored include impaired driving, aging and mobility, and traffic safety in communities of color.

U.S. Highway Crashes a 'National Epidemic,' New Statistics Show: Seat Belt Use Could Save Thousands More

August 2005

This article appeared in the August 2005 issue of The Nation's Health.

What Works in Reducing Impaired Driving

March 2003

This article discusses current trends and issues related to impaired driving prevention.

Prevention Institute Reports

Beyond Brochures: Preventing Alcohol-Related Violence and Injuries
A guide to preventing intentional and unintentional alcohol-related injuries by using the "Spectrum of Prevention" methodology.

Collaboration Math: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Collaboration (PDF)

September 2003

Collaboration Math describes the application of this Prevention Institute tool at the University of California Berkeley's Traffic Safety Center, illustrating how multidisciplinary groups can use this tool to increase effective collaboration.

Kids' Plates: The Spectrum of Prevention for Childhood & Adolescent Injury Prevention

This paper offers examples of child and adolescent injury projects for each of the six levels of the Spectrum of Prevention.

SafeUSA Focus Forum findings

December 2001

This report presents the findings of community forums held to bring local and regional perspectives to SafeUSA's development of a national unified injury and violence prevention strategy.

Traffic Safety in Communities of Color

November 2003

This paper highlights major traffic safety needs within specific communities of color, and concludes that ongoing data collection and analysis are necessary to provide a clearer, more complete picture of the issue as well as to inform interventions and efforts targeted toward these communities. More research is needed to understand past traffic safety successes (such as the decreases in impaired driving or increases in seat belt use that have occurred across ethnic groups) so that these successes can be extended. Similarly, evaluations of current interventions are greatly needed, particularly for comprehensive and longitudinal studies. Finally, there is also a need for research that distinguishes the effects of ethnicity versus the effects of socioeconomic status on traffic safety outcomes.

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