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This is a book... about social justice, assembling what is known about injury prevention, so that it is available for use in the entire world. In bringing together the art and science of injury prevention for the benefit of everyone, the book is ambitious, thorough, and helpful. Its publication is a landmark event. Now it must be used. --William H. Foege, from the Foreword ...this is an informative and stimulating book that is highly recommended for health science libraries. --Doody's Journal What we now have is a landmark addition to a remarkably small shelf of texts about this subject....This book Rrovides...a truly international perspective, using comparisons as the basis for highlighting problems in prevention in the developing world. --British Medical Journal This book is lucidly written, clearly presented with excellent sign posting and identification of sub-sections, includes some case studies and is enlivened by appropriate quotations . . . . I would therefore strongly recommend Barss et al. to the general reader who wants a broad overview of the epidemiology of injury. Family Practice It's greatest strength is being rooted in practical experience of the epidemiology of unintentional injuries around the world-Papua New Guinea, Angola, Greenland and the USA. --International Journal of Epidemiology With injuries becoming the leading cause of death among many population groups, this book provides an excellent overview of the issues and challenges faced by public health practitioners as the threat of infectious disease wanes in comparison. -- Ardene Robinson Vollman, RN, PhD, Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol 91, No. 4, July-Aug 2000

'...a landmark addition to a remarkably small shelf of texts about this subject...coherent, well organised, and well written...I judge the book a great success because it is difficult to imagine readers, even among the cognoscenti, who are not better informed after a careful read...There is no better compendium and no more thoughtful presentation of this modern epidemic...' Barry Pless, BMJ Vol. 317 \d 12 December 1998

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Peter Barss, M.D., Sc.D., M.P.H., is Head of Health Intelligence and Territorial Epidemiologist for the Canadian Arctic and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Gordon Smith, M.B., M.P.H., is Associate Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Susan Baker, M.P.H., is Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Dinesh Mohan, Ph.D., is State Bank of India Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

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