Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies, Second Edition presents the complex nature of injuries and violence but provides this information in a highly comprehensible manner. Aiding this composition, each self-contained chapter begins with "what this chapter is about" and ends with appropriate conclusions. This thorough revision combines injury prevention research with a public health practice perspective to provide an initiative to develop and implement successful injury prevention programs. The authors' devotion to advocacy for the prevention of injuries, both unintentional and intentional, makes this title an essential read for both public health students and public health professionals. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Forewords Introduction Part I - Magnitude, Concepts, and Epidemiology of Unintentional and Intentional Injury Chapter 1. The Importance of the Injury Problem: Magnitude, Cost, and Preventability Chapter 2: Conceptual and Historical Underpinnings of Injury and Injury Prevention Chapter 3: Epidemiology of Injury Chapter 4: Unintentional Injury Chapter 5: Intentional injury Part II - Basic Concepts of Injury Prevention Chapter 6: Injury Prevention: General Principles Chapter 7: Injury Prevention: Educational Strategies Chapter 8: Injury Prevention: Environmental Modification Chapter 9: Injury Prevention: The Role of Law Part III - Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies Chapter 10: Injury Preven