The purpose of this report is to provide details on the burden of concussion among children and youth in BC as a supplement to the report The Burden of Concussion in British Columbia.

The purpose of this report is to summarize and synthesize recent research evidence on the injury consequences of promoting physical activity.

The purpose of this report is to summarize and synthesize recent research evidence on the association between body weight and three indices of psychosocial functioning: bullying, suicide, and self-harm.

The purpose of this report is to describe the burden of concussion in BC, for the general population, with a focus on children and youth ages 0 to 19 years.

The purpose of this report is to highlight the burden of injury among the children and youth of BC, provide the available evidence for prevention strategies, and comment on the implications for policy and practice.

The objective of this paper is to describe injury characteristics from organized and non-organized sports among British Columbian children and young people using Canada’s national emergency department-based injury surveillance programme.

This report describes the epidemiology of violence and abuse as reflected in a variety of population and non-­population based data sources in British Columbia.

The objectives of this preliminary evaluation are to measure the effectiveness, benefits, and usage of safety seats for child passengers aged 1-5 years by analyzing the child casualty data for the period of 1997-2002.

Suicide rates in Sri Lanka (40 per 100 000) greatly exceed those of the United Kingdom (7.4/100 000), United States (12/100 000), and Germany (15.8/100 000).1,2 A leading method of committing suicide in Sri Lanka is ingestion of pesticides, which are readily available in rural farming households. Self poisoning kills more people in rural Sri Lanka than ischemic heart disease and tropical diseases combined.3 Although acute pesticide poisoning occurs at…

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