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David C. Schwebel

Researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Publications -  395
Citations -  123784

David C. Schwebel is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Injury prevention. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 358 publications receiving 93565 citations. Previous affiliations of David C. Schwebel include University of California, Los Angeles & University of Iowa.

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Why "accidents" are not accidental: using psychological science to understand and prevent unintentional child injuries

TL;DR: Comments are made on the scope of injury as a global public health challenge and the central role psychologists can and should play to reduce the burden of child injury on the world's population.
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Disparities in Under-Five Child Injury Mortality between Developing and Developed Countries: 1990–2013

TL;DR: Country-specific analysis showed large variations across countries for both injury mortality and changes in injury mortality between 1990 and 2013, and countries that have high injury mortality can benefit from the success of other countries.
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Configural Approaches to Temperament Assessment: Implications for Predicting Risk of Unintentional Injury in Children

TL;DR: In the dimensional interaction analyses, an interaction between surgency/extraversion and negative affect tended to predict injury, especially when children lacked capacity for effortful control.
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Effectiveness of an app-based intervention for unintentional injury among caregivers of preschoolers: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: If effective, the app-based intervention could offer an effective population- based intervention option to cost-effectively promote unintentional injury prevention in countries and regions where injury control is under-supported.
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Roles of individual differences and traffic environment factors on children's street-crossing behaviour in a VR environment.

TL;DR: Both sensation seeking and traffic environment factors impact children’s behaviour in traffic, and there are interactions between traffic speeds and inter-vehicle distances that impact crossing behaviour.