Linn Herbert I
Injury Control Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Am J Lifestyle Med. 2016 Jan 13;10(1):10-13. doi: 10.1177/1559827615609032. eCollection 2016 Jan-Feb.
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.
泰特格和弗朗西斯库蒂所著文章《生活方式医学应认真对待伤害预防的时候了》中的一个主题,应该会引起当代伤害预防支持者的共鸣——无论他们是研究人员、从业者、政策制定者,还是公共卫生领域的倡导者,亦或是医疗保健领域的提供者、管理人员和患者权益倡导者——即医疗保健提供者需要更加关注伤害预防。特别是,呼吁提供者将伤害预防方法和工具与患者的临床护理联系起来,既值得关注又令人信服。然而,作者对美国当前伤害情况的描述未能承认过去十五年中发生的对提供者伤害预防角色产生影响的重要变化。此外,认为自《美国的伤害》出版后的三十年里伤害预防进展有限的观点,低估了已取得的进步。