The changing approach to the epidemiology, prevention, and amelioration of trauma: the transition to approaches etiologically rather than descriptively based

The changing approach to the epidemiology, prevention, and amelioration of trauma: the transition to approaches etiologically rather than descriptively based William Haddon Jr Phenomena of trauma to be dealt with scientifically must be based not on descriptive categorizations, but on etiologic ones.How this is happening and what it means are discussed in this paper.