Injuries

A first step to planning a program to prevent injuries is to understand the topic through surveillance data.

Aboriginal

• First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS), 2008/10, National Report on adults, youth and children living in First Nations communities (PDF document), The First Nations Information Governance Centre, 2012.
• Unintentional injury hospitalizations among children and youth in areas with a high percentage of Aboriginal identity residents: 2001/2002 to 2005/2006, Statistics Canada (2012).
• Injury prevention indicators for Inuit children and youth (PDF document), First Nations and Inuit Children and Youth Indicators Working Group (2010).

Canadian Data

• Unintentional injury hospitalizations and socio-economic status in areas with a high percentage of First Nations identity residents, Statistics Canada (2014).
• Intentional injury hospitalizations in geographical areas with a high percentage of Aboriginal-identity residents, 2004/2005 to 2009/2010, (peer reviewed) author Statistics Canada, Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada (2014).
• Injuries at work, 2013, Health fact sheet. Statistics Canada.
• The economic burden of injury in Canada (PDF document), SMARTRISK in partnership (2009).
• Injury reports, Public Health Agency of Canada.
• Data Blog: Head Injuries in Children and Youth – The invisible epidemic, Public Health Agency of Canada.
• Injury hospitalizations and socio-economic status, Canadian Institute for Health Information.
• Chronic disease and injury indicator framework, Public Health Agency of Canada (2015).
• National trauma registry report 2013: Hospitalizations for major injury in Canada, 2010-2011, Canadian Institute for Health Information.
• Motor vehicle accidents causing death, by sex and by age group, Statistics Canada (2012).
• Injuries in Canada: Insights from the Canadian Community Health Survey 2009-2010 (PDF document), Statistics Canada (2011).
• Falls and related injuries among older Canadians: Fall related hospitalizations and prevention initiatives (PDF document), Public Health Agency of Canada (2010).
• The economic burden of injury in Canada, Parachute (2009).

Children

• Child and youth injury in review, 2012 edition spotlight on road and transport safety, Public Health Agency of Canada.
• Child and youth injury in review, 2009 edition spotlight on consumer product safety , Public Health Agency of Canada.
• National trauma registry Analysis in Brief: 2007 injury hospitalizations highlights report (In focus: Pediatric injury hospitalizations in Canada, 2005-2006) (PDF document), Canadian Institute for Health Information (2008).

Economic Data

• The cost of Injury in Canada (PDF document), Parachute and Conference Board of Canada (2015).

Seniors

• Seniors’ falls in Canada: Second report, Public Health Agency of Canada (2014).
• Safety at home: A pan-Canadian home care study, Canadian Patient Safety Institute (2013).
• Seniors and falls (PDF document), Canadian Institute for Health Information (2010).

Provincial/Territorial Data

Alberta

• Children and Youth injuries in Alberta (PDF document), Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research (2012).
• Seniors’ injuries in Alberta (PDF document), Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research (2012).

Atlantic

• Falls among Seniors: Atlantic Canada (PDF document), Canadian Institute for Health Information (2010).
• Child & youth unintentional injury in Atlantic Canada: 10 years in review (PDF document), Parachute (2009).

British Columbia

• Injury Insight: Why it’s time to pop the bubble wrap (PDF document), BC Injury research and prevention unit (2015).
• The burden of concussion in British Columbia (PDF document), BC Injury research and prevention unit (2012).
• Play spaces project – Key informants’ perspective (PDF document), “Active and Safe”, Injury Prevention Initiative: Tier 2 (c) Playgrounds and Neighbourhood Play Spaces. BC Injury prevention and research unit, University of British Columbia (2013).
• BC injury atlas – injuries in British Columbia 2006 – 2010 (PDF document), BC Injury Research and Prevention Institute (2012).
• Injury insight: Snowmobiling injuries (PDF document), BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit in partnership with Karin Goodison (2012).
• iDOT Injury data online tool, BC injury research and prevention unit.
• Injury insights publications, BC Injury research and prevention unit (2011-2015).

New Brunswick

• Injuries in sport, recreation and exercise, health indicators –Issue 7 (PDF document), Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health (2013).
• Injury in New Brunswick, Health indicators – Issue 6 (PDF document), Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health (2012).

Ontario

• Ontario Injury Data Report, Ontario injury prevention resource Centre (2012).
• Ontario trauma registry report: Major injury in Ontario, Canadian Institute for Health Information.
• Pedestrian death review: A review of all accidental pedestrian deaths in Ontario from January 1st, 2010 to December 31st 2010, Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario (2012).
• Cycling death review: A review of all accidental cycling deaths in Ontario, 2006-2010 (PDF document), Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario (2012).
• Hospitalizations for all injuries, Public Health Ontario.
• Fall-related hospitalizations among seniors, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
• Road safety: The journey ahead, Public Health Ontario

Quebec

• Québec WHO Collaborating Centre for safety promotion and injury prevention – Activity Report 2013-2014 (PDF document), Government of Quebec (2015).
• Nombre de personnes accidentées de la route selon l’année d’accident et l’âge (French only). Statistics on the number of road accident victims by age and year. Quebec Government.
• Chutes chez les personnes âgées de 65 ans et plus vivant à domicile : Des données à l’action (PDF document) (French only). Public health falls-prevention strategies specifically targeted at seniors living at home; includes a section on statistics. Institut national de santé publique du Québec (2012).
• Santéscope: Evolution for Québec: Physical health status (open drop down menu): Unintentional injuries, Institut national de santé publique du Québec (2010).
• When kissing owies isn’t enough: Injuries during childhood (PDF document), Institut de la Statistique du Québec (2010).
• Cree Health Survey 2003: Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.1: Iiyiyiu Aschii: Injuries and transportation safety (PDF document), Institut national de santé publique du Québec (2008).

Saskatchewan

• Statistics, Saskatchewan Prevention Institute.
• Saskatchewan comprehensive injury surveillance report, 1995-2005, Ministry of Health et al. (2008).

International Data

Australia

• Research and statistics for injury prevention and control, Flinders University, Adeleide.
• Hospitalised injury in children and young people 2011-12, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014).
• Indigenous child safety, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014).
• Trends in hospitalisations due to falls by older people, Australia 1999-00 to 2010-11, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2013).

European Union

• Injuries in the European Union: Summary of injury statistics for the years 2008-2010 (PDF document), Eurosafe (2013).

New Zealand

• Injuries – Injury Information Portal Includes official injury statistics, reports, presentations, databases and datasets. Statistics New Zealand.
• Chartbooks of the New Zealand injury prevention strategy serious injury outcome indicators, Statistics New Zealand (2010).

United Kingdom

• National child and maternal health intelligence network, Public Health England (2015).

United States

• Injury data and resources, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Youth risk behavior surveillance system: Unintentional injuries and violence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• WISQARS^RT Injury prevention and control: Data and statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

World Health Organization

• Violence and injury prevention: Data collection.
• Global status report on road safety 2013.
• Falls: Fact sheet, (2012).

Canadian Strategies

• Urban traffic calming and road safety: Effects and implications for practice (PDF document), Institut national de santé publique du Québec and National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (2012).

Aboriginal Strategies

• Healthy aging through fall prevention among older Aboriginal people: From many voices to a shared vision, Centre for Aboriginal Health Research, University of Victoria (2011).

Provincial/Territorial Strategies

Alberta

• Injury prevention and safety, Alberta Health Services.

British Columbia

• Injury prevention – Working towards an injury-free BC, BC Ministry of Health.
• Seniors’ fall prevention, BC Ministry of Health.

New Brunswick

• A framework for the prevention of unintentional injury in New Brunswick, Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health (2012).

Northwest Territories

• Concussion and brain injury prevention & drowning prevention action plan, Government of Northwest Territories.
• A culture of safety: NWT injury prevention strategy 2007-2012 (PDF document), Ministry of Health and Social Services (2007).

Nova Scotia

• Speak up: An action plan to address bullying and cyberbullying, Government of Nova Scotia (2013).
• Nova Scotia’s renewed injury prevention strategy: Taking it to the next level (PDF document), Nova Scotia Health Promotion and Protection (2009).

Ontario

• Integrated Provincial falls prevention framework and toolkit (PDF document), Ontario Minister of Health and Long Term Care (2011).

Quebec

• Public Health scientific advisory on the prevention of farm injuries in Quebec: Synthesis report (PDF document), Institut national de santé publique du Québec (2013).

International Strategies

Europe

• TACTICS Action planning for child safety: 2014 update on the strategic and coordinated approach to recuing the number one cause of death for children in Europe – injury (PDF document), European Child Safety Alliance (2014).

France

• Child Safety in Europe: France, European Child Safety Alliance.

New Zealand

• New Zealand injury prevention strategy, New Zealand Government.

United Kingdom

• Reducing unintentional injuries in and around the home among children under 5 years, Public Health England (2014).
• Reducing unintentional injuries on the roads among children and young people under 25 years, Public Health England (2014).

United States

• Injury, violence and safety, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• National action plan For child injury prevention (PDF document), National Centre for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012).

World Health Organization

• Unintentional injuries policy documents.
• World report on child injury prevention (2008).

Canadian Guidance

Aboriginal

• A journey to the teachings: A community approach to injury prevention, Health Canada (2009).

Children

• Child safety good practice guide: Good investments in unintentional child injury prevention and safety promotion – Canadian Edition (PDF document), Parachute (2011).

Seniors

• Age-friendly communities, Public Health Agency of Canada.

Provincial/Territorial Guidance

Alberta

• Safety guidelines for physical activity in Alberta schools 2013 (PDF document), Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research.

British Columbia

• Concussion among children and youth in British Columbia (PDF document), BC Injury research and prevention unit (2013).
• Falls and related injuries in residential care: A framework & toolkit for prevention (PDF document), Centre of Excellence for Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury in Aging, and Centre for Hip Health and Mobility (2010).
• Model Core Program Paper: Prevention of unintentional injury (PDF document), BC Ministry of Health (2007).
• Tool Repository, BC Injury research and prevention unit, Nova Scotia Child Safety Injury Prevention Program and Canadian Collaborating Centres for Injury Prevention and Control.

Manitoba

• A review of best practices, Healthy Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs, Manitoba Health.

Ontario

• Prevention of injury: Guidance document (PDF document), Ministry of Health Promotion (2010).
• Prevention of falls and falls-related injuries in community dwelling seniors: An evidence-based analysis, Ontario Seniors’ Secretariat (2008).

Quebec

• Falls prevention among seniors living at home: Preliminary recommendations for clinical practice guidelines (PDF document), Institut national de santé publique du Québec (2014).
• Safety of elementary school students walking or bicycling between home and school in Quebec: Summary (PDF document), Quebec National Institute of Public Heath (2013).

International Guidance

United Kingdom

• The assessment and prevention of falls in older people, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2013).
• NICE public health guidance 29: Strategies to prevent unintentional injuries among under-15s, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2010).
• NICE public health guidance 30: Preventing unintentional injuries among under-15s in the home, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2010).
• NICE public health guidance 31: Preventing unintentional road injuries among under-15s: road design, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2010).

United States

• Injury prevention and control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

WHO/Pan American Health Organization

• Prevention of alcohol-related injuries in the Americas: from evidence to policy action, (2013).

World Health Organization

• World report on child injury prevention (2008).
• Global health observatory: Interventions to reduce road traffic injuries, (2013).

Selected reviews from HealthEvidence.org:

• A systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions to prevent and respond to violence against persons with disabilities, (2014).

Children

• A systematic review on the effectiveness of school and community-based injury prevention programmes on risk behaviour and injury risk in 8-12 year old children, (2014).
• Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood, (2013).
• Preventing unintentional injuries to children under 15 years in the outdoors: A systematic review of the effectiveness of educational programs, (2012).
• Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention, (2012).
• Non-legislative interventions for the promotion of cycle helmet wearing by children, (2011).

Seniors

• Multiple component interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries among older people : Systematic review and meta-analysis (2014).
• Falls prevention interventions for community-dwelling older persons with cognitive impairment: A systematic review, (2013).
• Vision screening of older drivers for preventing road traffic injuries and fatalities, (2011).
• The effect of vitamin D on falls: A systematic review and meta-analysis, (2011).
• Effective exercise for the prevention of falls: A systematic review and meta-analysis, (2008).

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