TY - JOUR
T1 - Injury as a field of public health
T2 - Achievements and controversies
AU - Bonnie, Richard J.
AU - Guyer, Bernard
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The authors describe how the mission of public health has come to encompass the prevention and amelioration of injury. They also highlight the political and ethical challenges now confronting the field, including extension of the analytic tools of public health from unintentional to intentional injuries, integration of behavioral and environmental perspectives, understanding and managing risk-risk trade-offs, responding satisfactorily to charges of paternalism, and maintaining scientific credibility while advocating for controversial interventions.
AB - The authors describe how the mission of public health has come to encompass the prevention and amelioration of injury. They also highlight the political and ethical challenges now confronting the field, including extension of the analytic tools of public health from unintentional to intentional injuries, integration of behavioral and environmental perspectives, understanding and managing risk-risk trade-offs, responding satisfactorily to charges of paternalism, and maintaining scientific credibility while advocating for controversial interventions.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2002.tb00393.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2002.tb00393.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 12066604
AN - SCOPUS:0036596708
SN - 1073-1105
VL - 30
SP - 267
EP - 280
JO - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
JF - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
IS - 2
ER -