Volume 1, Number 1 - August/September 1997

Safe Communities represents a new vision of community-based traffic safety and injury prevention programming. The Safe Communities approach is defined by four characteristics: 1) an integrated and comprehensive injury control system, 2) expanded partnerships, especially with health care providers and businesses, 3) the use of multiple data sources to define an injury problem, and 4) citizen involvement and input. In this issue of BSC, four individuals who have distinguished themselves by their commitment to traffic safety and injury prevention share their perspectives on the importance of each of these defining characteristics.

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