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Specifically focused on Australia, Samuel Cornell has carried out a separate investigation on the subject. In his opinion, there is a lack of awareness there. "Selfie-related injuries and deaths may be a relatively new phenomenon, but data suggest they are a public health hazard that is not going away," Cornell stated in his presentation.
"Emergency medicine practitioners may have a role to play in the primary and secondary prevention of selfie incidents, including delivering opportunistic behaviour change messaging to those who are at risk of being injured or killed in a selfie-related incident, particularly young (14–25 years) males."
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