JUNE 2003 - Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research

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• Encourage integration of injury prevention strategies in related provincial and organizational business plans. • Encourage local governments to create safer environments. • Use “champions”, including injury survivors, to advance knowledge and awareness about injury priorities. Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 36
Goal 1 Objective 1.2 Increase the awareness and commitment of Albertans to injury prevention Albertans will take actions to reduce the major causes of injury. 1 Awareness and Commitment Outcome Indicator Current Status Target Reduction in the major causes of injuries Motor vehicle casualty collisions: average number of road users killed and seriously injured: 2,969 (1999) Source: Transport Canada: Road Safety Vision 2010. Suicide/self inflicted mortality rate: ageadjusted mortality rate due to suicide/selfinflicted injuries per 100,000 people: 15.2 (1999) Source: Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research. Suicide/self inflicted hospitalization rate: hospitalization rate due to suicide/selfinflicted injuries per 100,000 people: 76.7 (1999) Source: Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research. Suicide/self inflicted emergency visit rate: emergency visit rate due to suicide/selfinflicted injuries per 100,000 people: 242.2 (1999) Source: Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research. 2,100 (2008-2010) 12.3 (2012) Improve upon current status Improve upon current status Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 37
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Page 3 and 4: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Alberta Injury
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: Goal 1 Increase the awareness and c
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
Page 53 and 54: • Community-based and not-for-pro
Page 55 and 56: − − Educate and train your work
Page 57 and 58: • Federal Government − − −
Page 59 and 60: • Facilitate stakeholder developm
Page 61 and 62: APPENDIX B Injuries know no boundar
Page 63 and 64: • Decrease the incidence of injur
Page 65 and 66: Injuries account for a significant
Page 67 and 68: Injury deaths Figure B-4 presents i
Page 69 and 70: Figure B-5 Rank order of injury cau
Page 71 and 72: Trends in injury mortality, hospita
Page 73 and 74: Injury hospitalizations and emergen
Page 75 and 76: Figure B-11 Rank order of injury ca
Page 77 and 78: Rank order of causes of emergency r
Page 79 and 80: OTHER INJURY DATA FOR ALBERTA Other
Page 81 and 82: • Four out of 10 First Nations pe
Page 83 and 84: Fire injuries Data on fires in Albe
Page 85 and 86: APPENDIX C 1 The technical definiti

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