Injury and violence: achieving population level change

BMJ talk medicine

In the first podcast of the year, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure talks to Natalie Wilkins, from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Dr Wilkins experience in the injury prevention field ranges from opioids overuse to car accidents, sports injury, child abuse and suicide. She is the guest editor of a supplement of the Injury Prevention journal titled “Achieving population level change”, which brings together different approaches for achieving population-level change to improve injury-related health of communities. Read it for free: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1. A list of specific papers mentioned in this podcast below: A social change perspective on injury prevention in China - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i25 What matters, when, for whom? three questions to guide population health scholarship - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i3 New York City’s window guard policy: four decades of success - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i14 How the science of injury prevention contributes to advancing home fire safety in the USA: successes and opportunities - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i7 Compared with what? Estimating the effects of injury prevention policies using the synthetic control method - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i60 Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (injuryprevention.bmj.com) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month.