SafetyLit: Injury Prevention Literature
Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for current and past scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention.
Injuries have causes -- they don't simply befall us from fate or bad luck.
To prevent injuries it is necessary to have information about the factors that contribute to their occurrence. With this information we may understand the options for prevention. Effective injury prevention requires a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach. Information about injury occurrence and prevention is available from many sources. The weekly SafetyLit Update Bulletin provides abstracts of English language reports from researchers who work in the more than 30 professional disciplines relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm.
SafetyLit staff and volunteers regularly hand-examine (issue by issue) more than 3400 current scholarly journals from many nations to find relevant material. More than 750 additional journals are scanned at least once per volume. We also review conference proceedings and reports from government agencies and organizations. SafetyLit summaries are drawn from anthropology, economics, education, engineering specialties, ergonomics, law and law enforcement, medicine, physiology, psychology, public health, public safety, nursing, social work, traffic safety, and other fields. This information is maintained in a searchable archive that contains more than 100 thousand items.
SafetyLit makes an effort to provide the full range of positions on all subjects -- particularly controversial positions. SafetyLit does not endorse any position taken by any author of any article, report, or editorial that is included in the Weekly Update or the SafetyLit Archive database.
