Injury Prevention Links - USA

AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
   www.aaafoundation.org/home/
     Info on a wide range of traffic safety issues
Around the World in the 1890s
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/wtchome.html
     Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894 to 1896
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM)
  http://www.carcrash.org
     An international multidisciplinary organization for crash injury control
Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute (USA)
  www.bhsi.org
     Includes U.S. stats, but also comprehensive paper on Australian helmet use/stats
Brain and Spinal Cord Organization
   www.brainandspinalcord.org
Center for Injury Research & Control (CIRCL)
   www.circl.pitt.edu/home/seminars.htm
      Web-based seminars on many injury topics - see past seminars
Children's Safety Network
  www.childrenssafetynetwork.org/
     'Building Bridges between Traffic Safety and Public Health' magazine; school injuries; E-codes
Dr. Diane's Health-Helper
   http://www.health-helper.com
     Brain injury, concussion, and stroke resources
EpiMonitor
   http://www.epimonitor.net/index.htm
Federal Highway Administration (U.S.A.)
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov
     U.S. statistics and info
Future of Children
www.futureofchildren.org
     Journal relating to the wellbeing of children
Highway Safety Research Center - University of North Carolina
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu/
     Info on their research
Injury Control Resource Information Network
www.injurycontrol.com/icrin/
     Lots of links (to stats., injury control Centres, gov., research, products, etc. etc.) excellent
Injury Prevention Internet Library (University of Albany)
   http://www.albany.edu/sph/injury/injr_013.html
     Many web resources by subject
Injury Prevention Web
   www.injuryprevention.org/
     San Diego State University. Collection and use of injury data, facts, figures, and tables of rates for every state in the U.S. Links to over 300 injury-related sites, special interest in childhood injury prevention.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
  www.iihs.org
     Includes U.S. road stats. and other relevant info
   Status Report online - many road safety topics covered
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
   http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr.html
     Various injury issues covered on occasion
National Highway Traffic Safety Admin., USA
  http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
     Lots of road and vehicle safety info
  http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/
     Traffic safety and occupant protection info (vg)
  http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/airbags/
     American airbag information
SafetyLit - San Diego State University
   http://www.safetylit.org/
     Injury prevention literature update - abstracts
Society of Automotive Engineers
  http://www.sae.org/
     Auto product news & info on their publications 
Trafficlinq - traffic and transportation links
   http://www.trafficlinq.com/
Transportation Research Board, USA
   http://trb.org/
     International research news
University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center
   http://www.hsrc.unc.edu/
          Road safety research (many full text publications), excellent resource
U.S. National Library of Medicine
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
     Excellent site for everything medical
  http://medlineplus.adam.com/
     Medical encyclopeadia, search for diseases, injuries, symptoms
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dictionaries.html
     Links to a number of medical dictionaries
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center - Human Factors Division
   www.volpe.dot.gov

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