In the past three decades, “accident injury” has been ranked the top five causes of death in Taiwan. However, the research and related policy of injury prevention has not yet been fully developed. Taipei Medical University has been actively devoted in injury prevention in the past decade; this included the motorcycle helmet law, which was developed and promoted by Dr. Chiu WT,the founder of this institute. This policy has effectively lowered the motorcyclist mortality from head injury, as well as made the best use of medical resources. Concluded all the knowledge and experience, Taipei Medical University has established the Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control in 1997.
The current Chairman Dr. Tsai SH established the Aeromedical Approval Center (NAAC),24 hours everyday help emergency and critical patients in 19 locations of remote island and rural area with video-telemedicine and dispatch aeromedical evaluation. It has saved countless lives and the extra cost from unnecessary medical transportation. Nowadays, Dr. Tsai SH and Dr. Pai L have worked with Taiwanese Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Association (TIPSPA) to promote WHO program of safe community, and Dr. Lin MR and Dr. Wu SH have continuously working on the research of fall mechanism and injury severity in the elderly in community level.
The Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control aim to educate graduates on injury prevention, to develop the Taiwan injury prevention policy and promote its importance. Similar institutes abroad are in Harvard University, John Hopkins University, and UCLA. However, Taipei Medical University is the first academic institute to offer a graduate level in such field nationally.
The Institute of Injury Prevention and Control.
Students from the Institute of Injury Prevention and Control are all involved in the 37th Asia -Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health, and assist the process of the conference.
Class in Progress .
Students participated in the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering.
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一。本所是國內第一個傷害防治研究所
台灣地區事故傷害連續三十年皆為十大死因之前五位,但相關防治研究與政策卻不周全,此次以本校十餘年來積極參與傷害防治(包括安全帽立法等,如在邱文達教授努力推動安全帽立法後,不僅顯著降低機車車禍頭部外傷之死亡率,並節省政府龐大之醫療費用。)經驗,成立傷害防治學研究所(Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control),除建立國人事故傷害的資料庫外,並希望藉由傷害防治人材的培養,能有助於事故傷害防治措施的推動,提出防治政策提供政府參考。 類似研究所在國外各校如Harvard University, John Hopkins University, UCLA等均已設立,但國內尚未成立此領域之研究所,因此本所可謂創國內之先例。