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Injury Prevention for Children & Teens
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 5 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
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
Instructors
University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center
Course Team
The University of Michigan
Editor
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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