The Changed Injury Landscape, More on Injury Prevention Roles for the Lifestyle Physician, and More Than 'Limited Progress' Since Injury in America

摘要

One theme of the article ("Time for Lifestyle Medicine to Take Injury Prevention Seriously," by Teitge and Francescutti) that should resonate with contemporary injury prevention proponents—whether they are researchers, practitioners, policy makers, or advocates in the public health arena or providers, administrators, and patient advocates in the health care arena—is the need for an increased injury prevention focus among health care providers. In particular, the call for providers to link injury prevention approaches and tools to the clinical care of patients is both noteworthy and compelling. However, the authors' description of the current injury experience in the United States fails to acknowledge important changes over the past decade and a half that have had an impact on the injury prevention roles of providers. Plus, the notion that progress in injury prevention has been limited in the 3 decades since the publication of Injury in America, undervalues the advances that have occurred.