Reducing the Burden of Injury: Advancing Prevention and Treatment

by Richard J. Bonnie and National Research Council

Injuries are the leading cause of death and disability among people under age 35 in the United States. Despite great strides in injury prevention over the decades, injuries result in 150,000 deaths, 2.6 million hospitalizations, and 36 million visits to the emergency room each year.

Reducing the Burden of Injury describes the cost and magnitude of the injury problem in America and looks critically at the current response by the public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309065666
• ISBN13: 9780309065665
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"