JUNE 2003 - Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements....................................................................................................................................... 1 Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 14 An Overview of Alberta’s Injury Challenges ............................................................................................. 22 Some Underlying Factors Contributing to Alberta’s Injury Problem......................................................... 26 The Alberta Injury Control Strategy ........................................................................................................... 30 Roles and Responsibilities of Stakeholder Sectors ..................................................................................... 50 Summary and Implementation Recommendations ..................................................................................... 56 Appendices A. Membership of the AICS Advisory and Coordinating Committees B. International, National and Provincial Injury Data C. Endnotes Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Alberta Injury Control Strategy (AICS) is the culmination of the efforts of many people. Sincere thanks are extended to all participants for sharing their expertise and experience and giving their time to provide their perspectives and feedback on the Alberta Injury Control Strategy. Thanks and appreciation is also due to Braithwaite Boyle Accident Injury Lawyers for their financial support in printing the Alberta Injury Control Strategy document. Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 1
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Page 5 and 6: What are the injury control issues?
Page 7 and 8: Focus on the future—making Albert
Page 9 and 10: Outcome indicator Current status Ta
Page 11 and 12: Recommended Actions • Develop and
Page 13 and 14: Recommended Actions • Implement t
Page 15 and 16: Making Alberta the Safest Place to
Page 17 and 18: Figure 1 Injury control model BACKG
Page 19 and 20: PURPOSE OF THE ALBERTA INJURY CONTR
Page 21 and 22: Injuries may be further understood
Page 23 and 24: Table 2 (continued) Application of
Page 25 and 26: Table 3 Number of child injury deat
Page 27 and 28: Other highlights 10 specific to inj
Page 29 and 30: Challenge 2 Under-developed coordin
Page 31 and 32: Challenge 6 Limited research and pr
Page 33 and 34: Figure 3 Overview of the Alberta In
Page 35 and 36: MISSION Contribute to a healthy Alb
Page 37 and 38: Goal 1 Increase the awareness and c
Page 39 and 40: Goal 1 Objective 1.2 Increase the a
Page 41 and 42: Recommended Actions • Implement a
Page 43 and 44: Goal 3 Build and sustain the capaci
Page 45 and 46: Goal 5 Increase research and progra
Page 47 and 48: Goal 6 Optimize emergency response,
Page 49 and 50: Goal 6 Optimize emergency response,
Page 51 and 52: Making Alberta the Safest Place to
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• Community-based and not-for-pro
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− − Educate and train your work
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• Federal Government − − −
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• Facilitate stakeholder developm
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APPENDIX B Injuries know no boundar
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• Decrease the incidence of injur
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Injuries account for a significant
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Injury deaths Figure B-4 presents i
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Figure B-5 Rank order of injury cau
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Trends in injury mortality, hospita
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Injury hospitalizations and emergen
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Figure B-11 Rank order of injury ca
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Rank order of causes of emergency r
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OTHER INJURY DATA FOR ALBERTA Other
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• Four out of 10 First Nations pe
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Fire injuries Data on fires in Albe
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APPENDIX C 1 The technical definiti
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