Injury prevention and health promotion: A global perspective

• Published in: Health promotion journal of Australia Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 113 - 116
• Main Authors: Franklin, Richard C., Sleet, David A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australia Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2018
• Subjects: Alcohol; Cardiovascular disease; Disability; Drownings; Fatalities; Global perspective; Health education; Health Promotion; Humans; Injuries; Injury prevention; Mortality; Native peoples; Prevention; Public health; Risk Factors; Rural areas; Violence; Wounds and Injuries - prevention & control; Australia; United States > US; Western Australia Australia
• ISSN: 1036-1073; 2201-1617
• DOI: 10.1002/hpja.191

Since its inception 27 years ago (1990), the Health Promotion Journal of Australia has featured many articles on aspects of injury prevention, particularly noticeable during the past five years. With this issue, it will be only the second time the journal has launched a Special Issue on injury prevention, the first one appearing in Volume 1, issue 2, in 1991.1 As editors of the current issue, we felt the dedicated emphasis on injury prevention and health promotion in the journal is long overdue, given that our careers in injury prevention have changed considerably since the first Special Issue was published (and that a new cadre of health promotion professionals have entered the field). Therefore, we believe it is timely and important to feature some of the recent research focusing on injury prevention and health promotion.