Background
Baker, Susan P. was born on May 31, 1930 in Atlanta. Daughter of Charles Laban and Susan (Lowell) Pardee.
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This is a superb guide to the prevention of childhood injury--concise, carefully organized, clearly written, authoritative and realistic. It adopts a developmental approach to understanding the causes of injury and planning intervention, whether in infants, toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school children or young adolescents. Detailed information on specific injury is presented under an environmental rubric: the roadway, the home, the school and recreational area. Each chapter summarizes facts about the specific type of injury being considered, discusses developmental issues that affect its occurrence, and then offers guidelines for prevention. Both unintentional and intentional injuries are covered. The authors' recommendations are addressed to schools and child care centers; health care providers; public agencies; legislators and regulators; law enforcement professionals; voluntary organizations; designers, architects, builders and engineers; business and industry; and mass media. Children cannot be expected to avoid injury on their own. Adults must grant them freedom from injury by providing a safe environment.
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Throughout the world, injuries are the leading cause of death for young adults, adolescents, and children. Injury death and hospitalization are also high among the elderly. With the improved prevention and treatment of infectious and degenerative diseases, the importance of injuries as a debilitating factor has rapidly increased around the world. Better living conditions have decreased the number of some types of injuries--such as drownings and burns--but the proliferation of new, high-energy vehicles, machinery, and weapons has offset this trend by significantly increasing the number of other types of injuries. This book documents the nature and magnitude of the problem and provides basic approaches to injury prevention. Injury statistics are supplied for many developing countries and indigenous populations as well as for industrialized nations. Important differences among countries and cultures affecting the types and circumstances of injury are illustrated in tables and figures that present extensive data and greatly enhance the book's usefulness. The many types of injuries covered in detail include those related to traffic, falls, burns, drowning, poisoning, animal and insect bites, envenomations, occupation, disasters, suicide, and homicide. The authors take a methodologic approach to the analysis of the health impact, circumstances, and costs of injuries. They detail the costs and health impact of injuries, as well as the role of health services in injury prevention. They describe surveillance methods and effective preventive measures that can be implemented relatively easily even in countries with limited resources. Reflecting the authors extensive experience in injury prevention in a variety of countries, this book will help readers understand this major health problem, the changes that could reduce it, and the means of influencing crucial public policies. Succinct and practical, Injury Prevention is intended for public health practitioners who develop and evaluate injury surveillance programs, epidemiologists and other researchers who wish to understand the patterns of injury occurrence, and government officials and policy makers concerned with public safety and injury prevention.
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This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. For each of more than sixty causes of injury, data are presented by age, race, sex, geographic area, urban/rural residence, and per capita income. The second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports, work, aviation, and large trucks. Also new are many analyses subdivided by four racial groups as well as age and sex, made possible by the use of mortality data from a seven year period. The updated analyses of time trends throughout the book document major reductions in death rates over the past decade. As a statistical compilation, the book offers users a quick reference to valuable detail, much of which would otherwise be inaccessible. It also discusses reasons for many of the extreme differences among groups of people in injury death rates and describes promising avenues to prevention. This accessible, readable reference will be valuable to public health personnel, physicians, epidemiologists, safety planners and policy makers.
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(This is a comprehensive but concise reference that docume...)
This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. For each of more than sixty causes of injury, data are presented by age, race, sex, geographic area, urban/rural residence, and per capita income. The second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports, work, aviation, and large trucks. Also new are many analyses subdivided by four racial groups as well as age and sex, made possible by the use of mortality data from a seven year period. The updated analyses of time trends throughout the book document major reductions in death rates over the past decade. As a statistical compilation, the book offers users a quick reference to valuable detail, much of which would otherwise be inaccessible. It also discusses reasons for many of the extreme differences among groups of people in injury death rates and describes promising avenues to prevention. This accessible, readable reference will be valuable to public health personnel, physicians, epidemiologists, safety planners and policy makers.
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Baker, Susan P. was born on May 31, 1930 in Atlanta. Daughter of Charles Laban and Susan (Lowell) Pardee.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1951; Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1968; Doctor of Science (honorary), University North Carolina, 1998.
Research associate, Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Baltimore, 1968-1981;
research associate School Hygiene and Public Health,, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1968-1971;
assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1971-1974;
associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974-1983;
professor health policy and management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1983;
associate department chairman health policy and management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1997;
joint appointment in environmental health science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1975;
joint appointment in pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1983;
director Injury Prevention Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1987-1988;
co-director, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1988;
acting head division public health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1988-1990;
joint appointment pediatrics emergency medicine School Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1991. Visiting professor University of Minnesota School Public Health, 1975-1987. Chairman national review panel for national accident sampling system Department Transportation, Washington, 1976-1981.
Vice Chairman of Commission on trauma research National Research Council, Washington, 1984-1985;member of advisory commission on injury control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 1989. Member Armed Forces Epidemiological Board. Commissioner West Latir Ditch Association, New Mexico, 1990.
Visiting lecturer in injury prevention Harvard School Public Health, 1984-1987. John T. Law memorial lecturer U. Calgary, Alberta, 1984. Expert panel Age 60 rule Federal Aviation Administration, 1991-1993.
Consultant and lecturer in field.
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Fellow American Association Automotive Medicine (board directors 1971-1976, president 1974-1975, award of merit 1985, Abe Mirkin Service award 2002), Aerospace Medical Association (editorial board since 1994, John Stapp award 2005, Moseley award 2010), Society Advancement Violence and Injury Research (Champion award, 2006). Member American Public Health Association (governing council 1975-1977, journal board 1983-1987, award for excellence 1999), American Trauma Society (board directors, Distinguished Achievement award 1981, Stone lecturer 1985), American Association for Surgery of Trauma (honorary, Fitts oration award 1996), Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Omega.
Married Timothy Danforth Baker, June 23, 1951. Children— Timothy D., David C., Susan L.