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Epidemiology |
A branch of medicine that deals with the incidence and prevalence of disease in large population. |
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Injury |
Intentional or unintentional damage to a person resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat and oxygen. |
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Injury risk |
Hazardous or potentially hazardous situation that puts people in danger of sustaining injury. |
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Injury surveillance program |
Ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice. |
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Primary prevention |
Keeping an injury from ever occurring. |
