Injury Prevention for Children & Teens

Injury Prevention for Children & Teens

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Syllabus

Module 1: Welcome

Module 2: Introduction to Child & Adolescent Injuries

Introduction to injury definition, health inequities, social determinants of health, risk and promotive factors, injury theory, and theories of behavioral change

Module 3: Intentional Injuries

Peer violence and bullying, dating and sexual violence, firearm safety, suicide prevention, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), child maltreatment

Module 4: Transportation Safety

Infant and child passenger safety, teen driving, vulnerable road users

Module 5: Sports Injury Prevention

Concussion definition and incidence; the acute and persistent effects of concussion

Module 6: Adolescent Substance Use and Injury

Alcohol and cannabis use and injury among adolescents; the opioid epidemic

Module 7: Early Childhood Unintentional Injury

Factors, techniques, and messaging for burn prevention in children, and water safety and drowning prevention

Module 8: Injury Prevention Advocacy

Effective advocacy techniques and tools for policy change

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center
Course Team
The University of Michigan

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The University of Michigan is an American university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It also has two regional campuses in the same state, in Dearborn and Flint.

Founded in 1817, it was Michigan's first university, established even before the State of Michigan joined the Union. Also known as UMich or UM, it is renowned as one of the best public universities in the United States.

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