Andrea C. Gielen, David A. Sleet, Ralph J. DiClemente (editors). Injury and violence prevention: behavioral science theories, methods and applications.

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Andrea C. Gielen, , David A. Sleet, , Ralph J. DiClemente. (editors). Injury and violence prevention: behavioral science theories, methods and applications. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, Hardback, 2006, 576 pp. $70.00 USD. ISBN 0787977640 The injury epidemic had crossed boundaries before the eve of the new millennium; in the industrialized European Union alone, there are over 255 000 deaths annually from injury and violence among the 480 000 million inhabitants.1 The recently published Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications volume epitomizes a courageous attempt to unveil a constellation of approaches, which were, until recently, considered ineffective in the injury prevention field. In the midst of the evidence-based scientific obsession and the cost containment reality, the editors of the book go beyond the simplistic division of preventive measures into active and passive ones and advocate a systems approach; the …