Preventing child unintentional injury deaths: prioritizing the response to the New Zealand Child and Adolescent Injury Report Card.

Objective: To develop recommendations for child unintentional injury prevention by comparing New Zealand's child unintentional injury mortality and injury prevention policies with those of European countries.

Methods: Unintentional child injury death rates based on external cause of injury were calculated and ranked. NZ's score for each of the 12 domains (based on external causes of injury) from the New Zealand Child and Adolescent Report Card was compared to European scoring.

Child and adolescent injury report card: New Zealand 2009.

Aim: Injury is the leading cause of death of children and adolescents. Among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development nations, New Zealand has the highest rate of child and adolescent injury death. This study aimed to evaluate the status of New Zealand's child and adolescent unintentional injury prevention.

A randomized controlled trial of a brief emergency department intimate partner violence screening intervention.

Study Objective: We evaluate the efficacy of emergency department (ED) brief intimate partner violence screening intervention in reducing short-term revictimization.

Methods: A randomized controlled trial with blinded 3-month follow-up was conducted in an urban New Zealand ED. Participants included 399 nonacute, English-speaking women aged 16 years and older, 199 randomly assigned to the treatment group and 200 to the control group.