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Abstract

Traumatic injuries pose a tremendous health burden globally, causing more than 5 million deaths annually and resulting in more deaths than all other causes combined for people aged 5–44 years. For each injury and death due to violence, thousands of nonfatal injuries require medical treatment, many of which lead to long-term disability. Injuries place a severe physical, emotional, and financial burden on individual victims, their families, and our society. To prevent injuries, many intervention strategies have been used to change individual behaviors and/or policies or to improve technologies and the environment. Using four examples (seat belt use, smoke detector installation, bicycle helmet use, and intimate partner violence prevention), this chapter illustrates how multilevel behavioral approaches and strategies could be utilized to target changes at the individual, family, community, and policy levels to prevent violence and injuries. With widespread implementation of such interventions, thousands of lives could be saved annually.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Jingzhen Yang

  2. Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Corinne Peek-Asa

  3. Department of Student Health and Wellness, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Trisha L. Welter

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    Linda D. Cameron

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Yang, J., Peek-Asa, C., Welter, T.L. (2018). Preventing Violence and Injury. In: Fisher, E., et al. Principles and Concepts of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93826-4_29

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