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The mission
of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center
(SCIPRC) is to develop and support a multi-disciplinary academic
and community effort with the goal of discovering and understanding
patterns of injury occurrence in high-risk populations and controlling
the incidence and consequences of these injuries. The steps
involved in this process include surveillance of injury causes,
identification of risk factors, data-driven and community-defined
intervention strategies, and analytic evaluations. Epidemiology,
public health, biomechanics/bioengineering, behavioral and social
sciences, clinical medicine, and health policy are among the
crucial components of this process. Primary, secondary and tertiary
prevention, and the integration of all three phases of injury
prevention, are addressed by the research, training, and community
service components of the SCIPRC. The
overarching theme of the SCIPRC research
is the prevention of intentional and unintentional injuries
in Southern California, home to 8% of U.S. residents. Southern
California is one of the most culturally and socioeconomically
diverse regions in the nation, and subject to a number of
environmental threats, such as fire, flood, and earthquake.
The diversity of Southern California provides both a wealth
of cultural experience and enormous disparity in access to
resources. We anticipate that our efforts will apply to a
wide variety of other segments of the nation, especially those
with significant numbers of ethnic/racial minorities, new
immigrants of both legal and illegal status, economically
disadvantaged and other underserved and high risk populations.
Research,
training, and related work focuses on injuries from assaultive
or self-inflicted means as well as from unintentional means
(including motor vehicle, occupational, domestic and environmental
exposures). The expected impacts of the SCIPRC will be to:
expand the frontier of discovery of injury causes in different
communities and populations; identify and integrate new data
sources into injury research; influence policy makers on intervention
priorities; and prepare and introduce new scholars and researchers
into the field, thereby reducing morbidity, mortality, cost
and suffering from injury in our region.
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