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Community-Based Solutions for Injury and Violence Prevention

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 2762

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Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (IEP) Research Group, Turku Brain Injury Centre, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Finland
Interests: pediatric traumatic brain injury; violence; self-harm; home injury

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we announce this Special Issue entitled “Community-Based Solutions for Injury and Violence Prevention”.

Injuries, whether intentional or unintentional, represent a leading cause of mortality and excess morbidity globally. Community-based interventions increasingly show great promise in reducing injuries. Bottom-up approaches, local capacity-building, intersectoral collaboration, and tailored injury surveillance strategies are among the many components involved in the creation of sustainable injury prevention efforts at community levels.

Additionally, the complementarity of practice-based evidence and evidence-based practice is of paramount importance in developing injury reduction strategies. With this in mind, there still remains a paucity of evaluations of large-scale community-based strategies, particularly programs that target multiple injury risks simultaneously.

This series represents an important contribution of original research articles, or comprehensive review papers, that examine interventions, trials, or case studies for injury and violence prevention in community-settings. This Special Issue seeks to develop discussion around up-and-coming or state-of-the-art research on practice and advancements in the field of injury and violence prevention.

Submissions passing an initial quality screen will undergo a thorough and rigorous peer-review. Manuscripts accepted for publication will be published open access.

We look very forward to receiving your work.

Prof. Dr. Michael Lowery Wilson
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • violence
  • burns
  • falls
  • poisoning
  • drowning
  • road traffic injuries
  • self-harm
  • suicide
  • international safe communities
  • helmets
  • disasters
  • behavioral approaches
  • chemicals
  • road safety
  • health promotion
  • swimming
  • flooding

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Snakebite Treatment in Tanzania: Identifying Gaps in Community Practices and Hospital Resources
by Felicia Margono, Anne H. Outwater, Michael Lowery Wilson, Kim M. Howell and Till Bärnighausen
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(8), 4701; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph19084701 - 13 Apr 2022
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Abstract
Snakebite envenoming causes more than 140,000 deaths annually and at least triple this number of disabilities. The World Health Organization classified snakebite as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2017 and developed a strategy to halve death and disability from snakebite by 2030. To [...] Read more.
Snakebite envenoming causes more than 140,000 deaths annually and at least triple this number of disabilities. The World Health Organization classified snakebite as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2017 and developed a strategy to halve death and disability from snakebite by 2030. To achieve this goal, snakebite victims need to receive safe and effective treatment. This descriptive, cross-sectional study surveyed student health professionals (N = 312) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and was designed to identify major gaps in community practices and hospital resources for snakebite treatment. Participants reported using traditional community practices (44%, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 39–50%), allopathic practices (7%, 95% CI = 5–11%), or a combination of both (49%, 95% CI = 43–54%) to treat snakebite. Harmful practices included tight arterial tourniquets (46%, 95% CI = 41–52%) and wound incisions (15%, 95% CI = 11–19%). Many participants (35%, 95% CI = 29–40%) also turned to traditional healers. Students who treated snakebite injuries within the last 5 years (N = 69) also reported their general experiences with snakebite in hospitals. Hospitals often lacked essential resources to treat snakebite victims, and 44% (95% CI = 30–59%) of snakebite victims arrived at a hospital only three or more hours after the bite. A significant percentage of snakebite victims experienced lasting damage (32%, 95% CI = 20–47%) or death (14%, 95% CI = 7–25%). Snakebite outcomes could likely be improved if hospitals were universally and consistently equipped with the essential resources to treat snakebite victims, such as antivenoms. Educational interventions aimed at communities should focus on discouraging tourniquet use and tampering with the wound. Collaboration between the allopathic and traditional health system could further boost snakebite outcomes because traditional healers are often the first health workers to see snakebite victims. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Community-Based Solutions for Injury and Violence Prevention)
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