A Johns Hopkins course on injury prevention

The injury prevention we focus on at Defywire is in the school environment, and for students in their broader lives as well. For those of us interested in this focused safety, these online course materials at Johns Hopkins provide perspective and general information: Confronting the Burden of Injuries: A Global Perspective. The lecture materials are provided at no cost in PDF. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, which is the source of the course, is recognized as perhaps the finest school in the world for public health. Their open courseware, used by professionals and students across the world, is making a significant contribution to training public health practitioners and teachers.

The image above is taken from the first lecture, which is the Introduction. “RTI” stands for Road Traffic Injuries and IPV for Injuries from Personal Violence (abuse). Clearly, to some extent, each injury category has application to school safety. An encouraging report in the introductory lecture is that emphasis on safety is increasing. There is a lot more than you might want to review in the lectures, but you may be interested in taking a look at the perspective of the public health experts at Johns Hopkins.