Citation

Corden TE, Christiansen AL, Hargarten SW. WMJ Wis. Med. J. 2005; 104(1): 9-11.

Affiliation

University of Wisconsin, Department of Pediatrics, Clinical Science Center H4/4, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792-4116, USA; e-mail tecorden@wisc.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Wisconsin Medical Society)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15779716

Abstract

The economics of health care is a significant challenge for all of society. On an individual level, nothing is more valued than good health. Yet how much can a society spend on health care, and where does the funding come from? Disease prevention offers the hope of reducing the cost of health care by leading to a healthier society, with decreased need for expensive disease therapy. This issue of the Wisconsin Medical Journal focuses on the 'disease' of injury and presents evidence-based information on how injury is affecting the lives of people in Wisconsin and the nation, while offering approaches of how to decrease the burden of injury through prevention measures. Many still view 'injuries' as 'accidents,' things that 'just happen,' or random 'bad luck,' but injury, like other disease entities, is preventable and open to scientific methods of study.