ICRIN- What's New

What's New for June-July 2000!

The Rural Indiana Safer Kids (RISK) Project (conducted by the Agricultural Safety and Health Program at Purdue University) was initiated to bolster ongoing efforts to reduce injuries and fatalities among Indiana's rural and farm children by: conducting coordinated public awareness campaigns and workshops, cultivating networking among interested organizations, maintaining surveillance of rural child injuries and fatalities, and increasing the availability of safety education materials on the topic of child injury prevention.

What's New for April-May 2000!

Australia's SportSafe has developed a range of resources and tools to help sporting clubs, sports trainers, sports medicine professionals, facility managers and schools collect useful information on sporting injuries. See their Sports Injury Data Dictionary Level 1 and Examples of sports injury data forms.
The Center for Injury Sciences (CIS) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has opened its website. The CIS provides a multidisciplinary focus for the care of injured patients and research related to both prevention and treatment of injuries.
EuroSafetyNet is a collaboration of twelve safety organizations from ten European countries. Here you will find information on injury surveillance systems, accident and hazard research, product safety, campaigns, safety conferences and evaluations of preventive measures.

What's New for Feb-March 2000!

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta, GA has an interactive data retrieval system for injury mortality data in the United States called WISQARS™ (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System).

What's New for Feb January 2000!

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), in the Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado at Boulder, provides assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence.
Health Promotion Programs for Injury Prevention - A database of programs produced by the School of Population Health, with initial funding from Queensland Health.
Injury Prevention Web - A site providing injury data, publication lists, job openings, and a comprehensive list of injury-related websites.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has a series of bicycle safety factsheets. One factsheet, About Bicycle Helmets. The factsheet Tips for Getting Your Children to Wear Bicycle Helmets can be found here.

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Last updated: 03/11/02 - http://www.injurycontrol.com/icrin/whatsnew.htm

ICRIN is sponsored by the:
Center for Injury Research and Control (CIRCL)
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Author: Hank Weiss MS, MPH, PhD Visiting Research Professor
Co-WebMaster: Gerald McGwin Jr. MS, PhD
URL: http://injurycontrol.com/icrin
Initial posting:1/1/95, Acknowledgments