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The Incidence and Economic Burden of
Injuries in the United States |
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Handbook of Injury and
Violence Prevention |
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By Eric A. Finkelstein, Phaedra S. Corso, and Ted R. Miller |
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Edited by Lynda S. Doll, Sandra E. Bonzo,
James A. Mercy, and David A. Sleet |
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Now, for the first time in over a decade,
The Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States provides comprehensive estimates of the impact of injuries in economic terms. The book reveals that in 2000 alone, the 50 million injuries that required medical treatment will ultimately cost $406 billion. These total costs, for both fatal and nonfatal injuries, include estimates of $80.2 billion in medical care costs and
$326 billion
in productivity losses, which include lost wages and the accompanying fringe benefits, as well as the lost ability to perform normal household responsibilities. The book’s chapters cover the following:
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Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention is the first book of its kind to present a comprehensive set of evidence-based injury and violence prevention interventions. Ideal for practitioners, teachers, researchers, and students, it highlights many effective interventions that can be used now. The book consists of the following three sections:
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The chapters in "Effective and Promising Interventions" provide detailed reviews of the scientific literature on unintentional injury and violence prevention interventions. |
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The second section, "Interventions in the Field," is oriented toward practitioners who wish to use
off-the-shelf curricula or develop their own interventions. |
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Estimates of injuries stratified by age, sex, mechanism, body region, nature of injury, and severity |
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Lifetime medical costs and productivity losses |
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Combined medical and productivity losses to present the total lifetime costs of injures |
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The final section, "Dissemination and Adoption of Science-based Interventions and Policies," is oriented toward researchers who want to encourage and study the uptake of research findings and practitioners who want to expand the research of effective interventions to broader audiences and new populations. |
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Comparison of the incidence and costs to the 1989 report |
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Discussion of the key limitations and areas for future injury research and prevention. |
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Implications for public health practice and research gaps are identified. The book includes additional agency and literature resources, as well as an annotated list of data sources. |
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