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Behavioral Interventions for Injury and Violence Prevention

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Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention

Behavioral science has made a wide range of contributions to developing and sustaining public health. Behavioral, psychosocial and sociocultural factors associated with lifestyle behaviors are major contributors to morbidity and mortality. Efforts to control behaviors contributing to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and HIV have successfully used behavioral and sociocultural strategies to reduce risks and improve the prospects for prevention (Green, 1999; Holtgrave, Doll, Harrison, 1997). Injury control can benefit from this legacy. It has only been recently that researchers and practitioners have recognized the value of using behavioral approaches for injury prevention and control (Gielen & Girasek, 2001; Gielen & Sleet, 2003).

Whether by violent or unintentional means, injury exacts a large toll on individuals, families, workplaces, and the community. Yet behaviors that give rise to injury and violence are amenable to preventive interventions. Experts in the behavioral and social sciences can help by documenting behavioral and social risk factors, developing and evaluating interventions, infl uencing social norms, assisting in postinjury recovery from psychological harm, and shaping individual and community preventive behaviors (Sleet, Hammond, Jones, Thomas, & Whitt, 2004).

Portions of this chapter were excerpted with permission from Oxford University Press from Gielen, A. C., and Sleet, D. (2003). Application of behavior-change theories and methods to injury prevention, Epidemiologic Review, 25, 65–76.

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  2. Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205

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Sleet, D.A., Gielen, A.C. (2008). Behavioral Interventions for Injury and Violence Prevention. In: Doll, L.S., Bonzo, S.E., Sleet, D.A., Mercy, J.A. (eds) Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29457-5_22

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