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Contagion of violence

The National Academies Press has published a book, Contagion of Violence:  A Workshop Summary, based on a 2012 workshop. The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable … Continue reading

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An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention

The National Academies Press has just released a prepublication edition of An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention. During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to … Continue reading

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Visualizing the effects of the environment vs. genes

From NPR’s Shots blog: Scientists don’t debate the old nature vs. nurture question much these days. The consensus is that there is no winner: Both your genes and your environment shape your development and your health. What’s still up in … Continue reading

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Tobacco prevention & control strategies in Washington state

From the CDC’s Prevention Research Centers: Researchers from the University of Washington PRC and their partners at health departments in Washington State and Oregon assessed health care costs and smoking rates associated with three tobacco-control strategies for the state of … Continue reading

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Lecture: Diary of a Biomechanics Student

This Friday, James Ashton-Miller will present “Diary of a Biomechanics Student: Towards the Prevention of Selected Unintentional Injuries and Their Long-Term Sequelae.”  In this talk, he will discuss the epidemiology and biomechanical mechanisms underlying several different types of unintentional injury, each … Continue reading

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