ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on unintentional injuries, which account for two-thirds of the public health injury burden. The burden of injuries on communities is equally large and multidimensional, especially among child injury deaths. Injury epidemiology is an important tool to help explain the variations, identify groups at higher risk for injury, and target specific interventions to reduce the burden. Public health shares a common goal with the Lifestyle Medicine Association: to increase awareness of lifestyle-based causes of disease and injury and to assist in the integration of health professionals working in lifestyle-related disease and injury management and prevention. The science of injury control demonstrates that using public health and health promotion approaches can be effective in injury prevention. In the case of a sports injury, damage to the host is brought about through a rapid transfer of kinetic energy which can come from, for instance, colliding with another player or with a goal post.
