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Preventing sports and leisure injuries
Britain can learn from QuebecDespite the British government's avowed commitment to accident prevention,1 2 there seems to have been little progress towards developing effective programmes for preventing injuries sustained during leisure activities. This policy inertia may simply reflect a more general public indifference to leisure injuries, which many people (mistakenly) regard as unavoidable. But the media can generate interest in such injuries if the circumstances are sufficiently dramatic or if well known personalities are involved. Few in Scotland, for example, were left unaware of the recent deaths of the boxer James Murray, the climber Alison Hargreaves, and the skier Kirsteen McGibbon. Highly publicised incidents like these have drawn public attention to the serious casualties that can occur during sport and leisure activity.
How important are sports and leisure injuries as a public health problem? Few studies have been conducted,3 4 5 6 so assessing the scale of the problem in Britain is a
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