Book chapter
Chapter 21 - Preventing and Managing Injury at the Clinical Level
Lifestyle Medicine, pp.327-338
Elsevier Inc, Third Edition
2017
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Abstract
Workplace, recreational, domestic, transportation, environmental, and other injuries, are responsible for a significant proportion of modern preventable morbidity. In 1974 US engineer William Haddon suggested that these should be looked at epidemiologically like any other epidemic, by examining the triad of causality—host, vector, and environment—identified as underpinning infectious disease epidemics in the 19th century. This provides a framework for practitioners to manage such problems in a lifestyle medicine framework.
Details
- Title
- Chapter 21 - Preventing and Managing Injury at the Clinical Level
- Creators
- Kevin WolfendenGarry Egger - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Lifestyle Medicine, pp.327-338
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Identifiers
- 991012926960602368
- Copyright
- © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- Academic Unit
- National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter