At least 5 million people die each year from injuries and about half thedeaths in the 1024 age group are accountable to them. This is a major healthproblem for ... » 

At least 5 million people die each year from injuries and about half thedeaths in the 1024 age group are accountable to them. This is a major healthproblem for which a number of strategies for prevention and control can bedeveloped.This book presents a series of the plenary and stateoftheart presentationsfrom the 5th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control. There is afocus on transportation workplace sport and leisure and domestic sectorsand an exploration of the legal medical environmental safety andgovernmental issues which play a part in the subject.Practitioners and researchers in a variety of activities includingepidemiology and public health occupational health and safety ergonomics andproduct design medicine criminology engineering and physical sciences andthe behavioural sciences should find this a useful and challenging work. «