
Caroline Finch AO
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. Injury prevention researcher and injury surveillance expert. Editor BMJ IP.
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Rethinking The Future of Injury Research and Action in The Sustainable Development Goals Era and Beyond. Injury Prevention is calling for paper submission. See Topic Collection: Sustainable Development Goals | Injury Prevention (bmj.com)

Progressing injury prevention among Indigenous communities around the world. Injury Prevention wants your research contribution for its new Topic Collection. Details at Topic Collection: Indigenous Populations and Injury Prevention | Injury Prevention (bmj.com)



Agricultural workers face unique injury risks. A new study has explored the psychosocial risks faced by workers in the olive groves of Jaén (the largest olive grove region of Spain) Inst. Andaluz de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales Tecnologías Industriales y Agrarias injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…


Suicide by firearm is common yet little is known about the attributes of those with firearm suicidal ideation. Research identifies such ideation is associated with gun ownership and more experience with firearms among other factors. Read the findings here: injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

Education is important in helping explain disparities in injury mortality for Asian Americans but doesn't tell the whole picture - more research disaggregating Asian Americans is needed Duke Surgery injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

Using the US National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Akshaya Bhagavathula and colleagues report the trends and factors associated with alcohol and substance use related e-scooter/bike-related injuries in the United States between 2019 and 2022 injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

Research from Maryam Pirouzi and colleagues, recently published in the journal, investigates the implementation of the Falls and Fracture Prevention Programme, a multicomponent population-based intervention, across diverse districts in New Zealand injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

Using road traffic injuries data from the National Emergency Medical Service Run Sheet and weather data from the Korea Meteorological Administration, a new study examines the effect of frozen road conditions on road traffic injury rates in South Korea injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

New research recently published takes a policy-level approach to intimate partner violence prevention, examining if the expansion of Medicaid in the United States of America has impacted rates of intimate partner violence and violence more broadly. injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

A new study from J. I. Nazif-Muñoz and colleagues uses interrupted time-series analyses to examine the impact of non-pharmaceutical COVID-19 interventions on road traffic injuries related to speed and alcohol in Québec, Canada #OpenAccess injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

Protests in the US in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020 included the emergence of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, Washington. This study aimed to examine injury risks in this area Seattle Children's UW Medicine injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

New from Bharti Khurana, MD, MBA, FACR, FASER and colleagues, this study identifies patterns in patients presenting to emergency departments with non-fatal self-harm injury compared with patients presenting with assault and intimate partner violence injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…

Despite the well-documented link between alcohol consumption and increased injuries from falls, a data gap remains regarding prevalence of substance use (alcohol and drug involvement) by fall type Nicole Itzkowitz Columbia Epidemiology injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/…



Digital mental health services can use apps, symptom-tracking tools and programs to teach you CBT skills. But only some use real clinicians or peer supports. @OurANU Edith Cowan University (ECU) Griffith University theconversation.com/digital-mental…