Injury in America : a continuing public health problem / / Committee on Trauma Research, Commission on Life Science, National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1985
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 164 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 362.1/971/00973
• Soggetto topico: Wounds and injuries; Public health
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 119-138.
• Nota di contenuto: Injury In America -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- INJURY: MAGNITUDE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROBLEM -- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INJURY: THE NEED FOR MORE ADEQUATE DATA -- Recommendations -- PREVENTION OF INJURY -- Recommendations -- INJURY BIOMECHANICS RESEARCH AND THE PREVENTION OF IMPACT INJURY -- Recommendations -- TREATMENT -- Recommendations -- REHABILITATION -- Recommendations -- CURRENT FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FOR INJURY-RELATED RESEARCH -- ADMINISTRATION OF INJURY RESEARCH -- 1 Injury: Magnitude and Characteristics of the Problem -- 2 Epidemiology of Injuries: the Need for More Adequate Data -- HUMAN FACTORS IN INJURY CAUSATION -- PRODUCT, VEHICLE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN INJURY CAUSATION -- ELEMENTS OF AN INJURY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM -- EXISTING INJURY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS AND THEIR LIMITATIONS -- EPIDEMIOLOGIC USES OF INJURY DATA -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 3 Prevention of Injury -- GENERAL APPROACHES TO INJURY PREVENTION -- Education -- Laws -- Product and Environmental Design -- PREVENTION OF SPECIFIC TYPES OF INJURY -- Transportation Injuries -- Workplace Injuries -- Recreation Injuries -- Falls -- Fires and Burns -- Assaultive Injuries -- Self-Inflicted Injuries -- Relationship of Alcoholic Beverages To Injury -- STATUS OF INJURY-PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 4 Injury Biomechanics Research and the Prevention of Impact Injury -- STATE OF INJURY BIOMECHANICS RESEARCH -- MECHANISMS OF INJURY -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- In Jury Mechanisms -- Measurement of Biomechanical Responses -- Tolerance -- Assessment of Safety Technology -- Other Factors in Injury -- CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 5 Treatment -- PREHOSPITAL CARE -- HOSPITAL CARE -- Shock -- Neuroendocrine Response -- Infection -- CHARACTERISTICS OF INJURIES THAT REQUIRE TREATMENT -- Cellular Changes That Alter Function. ; Physical Alterations That Produce Major Problems -- Loss of an Organ -- CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 6 Rehabilitation -- RESEARCH ISSUES AND NEEDS -- Musculoskeletal Injuries -- Pathophysiology of Soft-Tissue Injury and Nerve Regeneration -- Fracture Healing Processes -- Fracture Nonunion -- Microsurgical Techniques -- Structural and Ultrastructural Anatomy -- Bioengineering and Biomaterials -- Burns -- Pathophysiology of Fire-Related Gas Inhalation -- Problems in Cutaneous Debridement and Replacement -- Prevention and Control of Tissue Contractures and Hypertrophic Scarring -- Disabling Pain -- Psychosocial Research and Prosthetic Methods -- Second Injury of the Spinal Cord -- Training -- Transportation -- Preservation of Spinal-Cord Function -- Preservation of Residual Function -- Nerve Regeneration -- Pressure Sores -- Management of Pressure Sores -- Consequences of Injudicious Injury Care -- Management of Sequelae -- CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 7 Current Federal Expenditures for Injury-Related Research -- 8 Administration of Injury Research -- CRITERIA FOR ORGANIZING INJURY RESEARCH -- FUNCTION OF A FEDERAL CENTER TO ADMINISTER INJURY RESEARCH -- LOCATION OF A FEDERAL CENTER TO ADMINISTER INJURY RESEARCH -- National Institutes of Health -- Department of Defense -- Department of Transportation -- National Bureau of Standards -- Centers for Disease Control -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- References -- Appendix A Recommendations For An Injury Research and Training Agenda -- SURVEILLANCE AND DATA COLLECTION -- PREVENTION -- BIOMECHANICS -- TREATMENT -- REHABILITATION -- TRAINING AND ORGANIZATION FOR INJURY CONTROL -- Appendix B Committee Biographies -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Provides a survey of what is known about injuries, and suggests that there is a vast need to know more. This book traces findings on the epidemiology of injuries, prevention of injuries, injury biomechanics and the prevention of impact injury, treatment, rehabilitation, and administration of injury research.
• Titolo autorizzato: Injury in America
• ISBN: 1-280-22234-4; 9786610222346; 0-309-53408-9; 0-585-15563-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811951703321
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