ABSTRACT
I. INTRODUCTION: THE NEGLECTED DISEASE Trauma injuries are among the most serious and neglected public health problems facing developed societies. Although various types of injury deaths-motor vehicle fatalities, homicides, suicides, falls, poisonings, drownings-have been listed in mortality statistics for decades, they have been ignored by all but a few epidemiologists and public health researchers. Influential and important discussions of the future direction of epidemiological and public health research make no mention of injury and therefore do not allow the proper learning for prevention [1,2].
