Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States

Law & Society Review;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United...Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 214. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Injury offers a challenging and provocative discussion of issues...think more deeply about: the centrality and necessity of injury in the American economy; how injury and ...

Athletic Injury Experience: A Qualitative Focus Group Approach.

Journal of Sport Behavior;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The current theory on response to injury is based on an appraisal process in which...makes an interpretation of the meaning of the injury. The purpose of this study was to describe the athletic injury experience, focusing on the meaning of the...

SEN. CLINTON ANNOUNCES FINAL CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF HER MEASURES TO...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ......have heard from wounded servicemembers at Walter Reed...Traumatic Brain Injury, the signature...lives of our wounded servicemembers and their families...Traumatic Brain Injury within 180 days...assistance to wounded servicemembers, including those...traumatic brain ...

RAMSTEIN AIRMEN TRANSPORT WOUNDED SERVICEMEMBERS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 5, 2007 ;     151 words ......Germany flew to Iraq Jan. 4 to help protect the lives of wounded servicemembers. The mission of the 791st Expeditionary Aeromedical...passengers need - regardless of the challenge. "Because (wounded servicemembers) are moving so quickly, a lot of these guys are waking...

MEDICAL TEAM GOES EXTRA MILE FOR WOUNDED SERVICEMEMBERS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 30, 2006 ;     157 words ......members providing advanced life-saving care to wounded servicemembers. Even with providing this care, crew members...biscuits may seem like a small thing, but wounded servicemembers are appreciative of the little taste of home...

FINAL CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL GIVEN TO SEN. CLINTON MEASURES TO HELP...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Traumatic Brain Injury, which so many...transition for wounded servicemembers between DoD and...lives of our wounded servicemembers and their families...Traumatic Brain Injury within 180 days...assistance to wounded servicemembers, including those...traumatic brain ...

SENATOR CLINTON APPLAUDS HOUSE-SENATE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE APPROVAL OF...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  December 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Measures to Help Wounded Servicemembers December 7...provisions to help wounded servicemembers in the Fiscal...Traumatic Brain Injury, the signature...lives of our wounded servicemembers and their...proposals to help wounded servicemembers: * Mandate...Traumatic ...

A role for school health personnel in supporting children and families...

Journal of School Health;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Injury represents the leading cause of death and disability for US children and adolescents. (1) Almost 16 million children are evaluated for injury each year in the United States. (2) Although childhood injury rates are decreasing, 70% of all deaths among children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 years...

Injury in Canadian youth: A brief report from the Health Behaviour in...

Canadian Journal of Public Health;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Although patterns of injury among Canadian youth have been described...estimates describing the full burden of youth injury are unavailable. We had the opportunity...1997-98 WHO-HBSC, expanding upon the injury-related analyses presented in a national...

SEN. CLINTON APPLAUDS HOUSE-SENATE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE APPROVAL OF...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ......provisions to help wounded servicemembers in the Fiscal...Traumatic Brain Injury, the signature...lives of our wounded servicemembers and their families...proposals to help wounded servicemembers: * Mandate that...Traumatic Brain Injury within 180 days...rating system ...

SEN. CLINTON MEASURES TO HELP WOUNDED SERVICEMEMBERS SIGNED INTO LAW

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ......urgent needs of wounded servicemembers. The bill contains...Traumatic Brain Injury, which is affecting...transition for wounded servicemembers between DoD and...Traumatic Brain Injury within 180 days...rating system for wounded servicemembers by ending the...assistance ...

Ten myths about injury prevention that hinder effective child safety...

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Injury prevention researchers and practitioners are often deeply...quoted as evidence of public ignorance about the nature of injury. The tendency on the part of the media and many professionals...that safety is merely a matter of 'common sense' and that injury is therefore not particularly amenable to ...

Acute alcohol consumption and mechanism of injury *.

Journal of Studies on Alcohol;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...THE PREVAILING PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH to injury prevention characterizes the causation of injury in terms of specific environmental circumstances...of the energy exchange that results in the injury (Haddon, 1980; Kraus and Robertson, 1992...

SEN. CLINTON APPLAUDS UNANIMOUS SENATE APPROVAL OF BILL TO HELP WOUNDED...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......problems facing our wounded servicemembers. The Dignified Treatment...for Traumatic Brain Injury, the signature wound...red tape preventing wounded servicemembers from receiving needed...for Traumatic Brain Injury within 180 days. This...disability rating system for wounded ...

WOUNDED SERVICEMEMBERS ENJOY PICNIC WITH VIEW

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 2, 2006 ;     390 words ......present at the home of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, here yesterday. But the real guests of honor were 150 wounded servicemembers and their families from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington...