Principles of Injury & Violence Prevention

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to the principles of injury and violence prevention broadly with a focus on understanding study designs used in injury and violence research, and important concepts used in designing, analyzing, and interpreting these studies to prioritize evidence-based prevention strategies. Students will analyze injury/violence as a preventable public health issue by synthesizing information on historical, cultural, systemic, and structural causes. Students will use public-access injury and violence data, peer- reviewed literature and other credible resources to identify the magnitude of the problem to the degree that it is known, describe injury/violence problems based on specific sub-populations, assess associated consequences to individuals, families, and communities and critique prevention and intervention strategies. Finally, students will have the opportunity to focus on one specific injury/violence topic and delve into its problem, causes, and public health intervention/prevention best practices.