JUNE 2003 - Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research

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Outcome Indicator Current Status Target Reduction in all other injuries Falls hospitalization rate: hospitalization rate due to falls per 100,000 people: 366.8 (1999) Source: Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research. Falls emergency department visit rate: emergency department visit rate due to falls per 100,000 people: 2,829 (1999) Source: Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research. Unintentional poisonings mortality rate: mortality rate due to unintentional poisonings per 100,000 people: 4.6 (1999) Source: Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research. Unintentional poisonings hospitalization rate: hospitalization rate due to unintentional poisonings per 100,000 people: 26 (1999) Source: Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research. Lost Time Claim Rate: number of lost time claims per 100 person-years worked: 3.0 (2002) Source: Alberta Human Resources and Employment. As identified by other stakeholders in their strategic/business plans 300 (2012) Improve upon current status Improve upon current status Improve upon current status Lost Time Claim Rate: 2.0 or lower Improve upon current status Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 38
Recommended Actions • Implement and build on existing and proposed injury control strategies such as A Strategic Plan to Reduce Impaired Driving In Alberta. A Ten Year Plan; the Healthy Alberta Prevention and Promotion Policy Framework, Alberta Occupant Restraint Program; Alberta Suicide Prevention Strategy; Alberta Workplace Safety 2.0; Alberta Disability Strategy; and the Spinal Cord Injury Collaboration. • Develop and support new provincial strategies to fill gaps for leading causes of injury. • Encourage integration of injury prevention strategies in related provincial and organizational business plans. • Develop and implement an injury prevention strategy in collaboration with Aboriginal communities to address the unique needs of Aboriginal people. • Develop an attitude of safety in the schools through curricula and hands-on practice to integrate injury prevention and job safety into all areas of living. • Support graduated driver licensing to develop safe driving skills and attitudes among new drivers. • Promote child traffic safety initiatives to establish life-long learning about traffic safety such as pedestrian safety, school bus safety, etc. • Support aquatic safety initiatives. • Promote farm safety and management assessment tools to encourage farm businesses to implement health and safety plans. • Promote a culture of safety in all environments and across all sectors. • Encourage a community development approach to injury prevention. • Promote the “Safe Community” model throughout the province. • Provide incentives that promote positive injury prevention behaviours and environmental changes. Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 39
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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 and 38: Goal 1 Increase the awareness and c
Page 39: Goal 1 Objective 1.2 Increase the 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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