Citation

McClure RJ. Aust. N. Zeal. J. Public Health 1996; 20(1): 97-98.

Affiliation

Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Public Health Association of Australia, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8799077

Abstract

The public health approach to injury control is now widely accepted. Since the development of this approach, there has been a shift in the perspective of public health programs to include broader definitions of health. There have also been increasing efforts to evaluate public health interventions in terms of health outcomes at the population level. In this context, it might be appropriate to broaden the focus of injury prevention to target more specifically injuries that are not life-threatening. Although they are not responsible for major morbidity at an individual level, they probably account for the greatest decrement in the health of the population as a whole.

Language: en