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J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:182-185 doi:10.1136/jech.2003.017715
  • Continuing professional education

Injury prevention: a glossary of terms

  1. I Barry Pless1,
  2. Brent E Hagel2
  1. 1Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Canada
  2. 2Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor I B Pless
 Montreal Children’s Hospital, 2300 Tupper, Montreal, QC, H3H 1P3 Canada; barry.plessmcgill.ca

    Abstract

    The main focus of this glossary is on injury prevention epidemiology and deals largely with terms about which there is some debate.

    Footnotes

    • Funding: none.

    • Conflicts of interest: none declared.

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