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Edited by L. S. Doll, S. E. Bonzo, J. A. Mercy, and D. A. Sleet, 596 pp, $99.
New York, NY, Springer Publishing, 2006.
ISBN-13 978-0-3872-5924-6.

JAMA. 2007;298:571-572.

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Twenty-two years have passed since the National Academy of Sciences published its report "Injury in America," highlighting injuries as a major public health problem, calling on the United States to step up research into the causes of traumatic injury and its prevention, and recommending the formation of a "Center for Injury Prevention" within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for managing federally funded injury research. The newly published Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention documents the state of the art—or rather, the state of the science—of injury prevention some 2 decades later.

The book's 4 editors are all well qualified to bring the reader up to date. Three of the 4 are associate directors of science within the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Together with more than 70 contributors, they have attempted to present an overview of what has been learned from investigations in epidemiology, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Mark D. Widome, MD, MPH, Reviewer
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park
mdw4@psu.edu

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