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Health Education Research, Vol. 16, No. 1, 102-105, February 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills and Strategies

Tom Christoffel and Susan Scavo Gallagher Aspen Publishers, Gaithersburg, MD, 1999 416 pp. ISBN 0-8342-0840-7. $49.00

David A. Sleet and Krista N. Hopkins

Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury, Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA

The time has come for injury prevention to be recognized as a legitimate part of public health. John Last once stated that we sometimes recognize as public health problems, aspects of life that we have previously considered as normal and acceptable (Last, 1987Go). Injury prevention is one of these problems and in their text, Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills and Strategies, Christoffel and Gallagher place injury prevention squarely within the professional context of public health.

Their comprehensive text serves as a technical guide to injury prevention practice. The authors address essential injury prevention knowledge, skills and practice strategies useful to health department officials, public health students, community leaders, advocates and practitioners new to the injury field. Other books . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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