General Violence & Injury Prevention

Educational Tools/Resources

• ACS's Injury Prevention (1999)
  A PowerPoint slide show, in English and in Spanish, on injury prevention and the health care provider's role.
• CIPPP's Injury Prevention: The Public Health Approach (2003)
  A PowerPoint slide show on the public health approach to injury prevention, with examples of successful strategies for the prevention of unintentional injuries.
• CSAP's Online Courses - Program Evaluation
  Three Web-based courses that provide education and resources on prevention program evaluation: Program Evaluation 101 and 102 (for beginners) and Program Evaluation 201 (intermediate level).
• NCHS's Injury Data Basics
  A PowerPoint slide presentation on injury surveillance, assessment of injury data sets, tools for coding injury data, federal, state, and local data sources, and communicating and disseminating data.
• NHTSA's Community How To Guides (2001)
  A series of guides with information for community-based organizations on coalition-building, needs assessment and strategic planning, evaluation, public policy, media relations and more resources
• NHTSA's The Role of the Physician in Injury Control (2002)
  A course for health care professionals on the science of injury control and strategies to support injury control.

Reports/Publications

• Demonstrating Your Program's Worth: A Primer on Evaluation for Programs to Prevent Unintentional Injury (1998)
  This CDC book shows program managers how to conduct a simple evaluation, hire and supervise consultants for complex evaluation, and incorporate evaluation activities into the injury prevention program.
• The Economic Dimensions of Interpersonal Violence (2004)
  This World Health Organization report strengthens the case for investing in violence prevention by highlighting the enormous economic costs of the consequences of interpersonal violence, and reviewing the evidence for the cost-effectiveness of prevention programs.
• Healthy People 2010 (second edition) (2000)
  This U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publication provides disease prevention and health promotion objectives for the nation. Volume 2 includes Chapter 15 on "Injury and Violence Prevention."
• Injury Fact Book 2001-2002
  This CDC book presents an in-depth look at the injury problem in the U.S. and efforts to reduce it. It includes sections on data sources and a range of injury issues.
• Medical Expenditures Attributable to Injuries-United States, 2000 (2004)
  This CDC report summarizes the results of an analysis of injury-attributable medical expenditures, underscoring the need for effective interventions to prevent injuries.

• World Report on Violence and Health (2002)
  This World Health Organization report examines a broad spectrum of violence globally, including child abuse and neglect, youth violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, elder abuse, suicide, collective violence, and provides a statistical annex with country/regional data and a list of resources for violence prevention.

Links to Other Resources

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  Offers National Guideline Clearinghouse^TM, a resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, and the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task
• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST): Prevention Page
  Offers an Injury Prevention Guide and prevention news, activities, abstracts, conferences, and links to resources
• American College of Surgeons (ACS) Trauma Programs: Injury Prevention and Control
  Provides injury prevention slide shows, selected readings, pertinent ACS position statements, and links to resources.
• Guide to Community Preventive Services: Violence Prevention
  Offers the non-Federal Task Force on Community Preventive Services' review of the effectiveness of population-based interventions to prevent violence.
• Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center: Best Practices
  Provides information on what works and what doesn't  work for the prevention of injuries in children and adolescents.
• Injury Coalition
  Provides advocacy, fact sheets,  and information links to support quality injury control research and programs.
• Injury Control Resource Information Network (ICRIN)
  Offers a list of key internet accessible resources related to the field of injury control.
• National Association of Injury Control Research Centers
  Provides member injury control research center listings, links, and a database of their recent projects/courses.
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC
  Provides resources on violence and unintentional injury  topics, including fact sheets, state injury profiles, and WISQARS ^TM, an interactive database that provides customized reports of injury-related data.
• Partnerships Against Violence (PAVNET)
  Offers a virtual library of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different  federal agencies.
• World Health Organization (WHO): Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention
  Offers data, information and resources on injuries, their extent, risk factors and prevention measures, and describes the work of the Department in key areas.