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Carol S. Wolf Runyan
Researcher at Colorado School of Public Health
Publications - 164
Citations - 4943
Carol S. Wolf Runyan is an academic researcher from Colorado School of Public Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Injury prevention. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 159 publications receiving 4612 citations. Previous affiliations of Carol S. Wolf Runyan include University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & University of Colorado Denver.
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Risk factors for fatal residential fires.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied fatal and non-fatal residential fires in predominantly rural areas using a case-control design, and compared all 151 fatal fires (cases) in single-family dwellings in North Carolina during a 13-month period with a sample of nonfatal fires (controls).
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Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension
TL;DR: This paper adds a third dimension to the matrix to facilitate its use for making decisions about which countermeasures to apply, and combines public health concepts of host-agent-environment as targets of change with the concepts of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
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Fatal residential fires: who dies and who survives?
Stephen W. Marshall,Carol S. Wolf Runyan,Shrikant I. Bangdiwala,Mary A. Linzer,Jeffrey J. Sacks,John D. Butts +5 more
TL;DR: The high-vulnerability group was more likely to survive if, in addition to a smoke detector, a potential rescuer was present, and smoke detectors were equally effective in both low- and high- vulnerability populations.
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Introduction: Back to the Future—Revisiting Haddon’s Conceptualization of Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
TL;DR: This paper examines Haddon’s advances from both a theoretical and a practical perspective and demonstrates the applicability of his approach not only to injury problems but also to other public health issues.
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Unintentional injuries in the home in the United States: Part II: Morbidity
Carol S. Wolf Runyan,David Perkis,Stephen W. Marshall,Renee M. Johnson,Tamera Coyne-Beasley,Anna E. Waller,Carla L. Black,Lorena Baccaglini +7 more
TL;DR: Specific home injury issues include falls among older adults, poisonings among middle-aged adults, fire/burn injuries among older adult and children, and inhalation/suffocation and drowning among young children.