title: On cogency, professional bias, and public policy: an assessment of four views of the injury problem.
abstract: Four professional views of the injury problem--medical, public health, legal, and economic--focus on different causal frameworks, each of which constrains the nature of preventive interventions. When these interprofessional disagreements are coupled with a lack of political cogency, action is likely to be uncoordinated and transient. Strong premises provide a firm foundation for inference, but they also function as barriers to integration and public consensus formation for prevention of injuries.
mesh_terms: D000056:Accident Prevention; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D011640:Public Policy; D012309:Risk-Taking; D014481:United States; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control