JUNE 2003 - Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research

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SUMMARY AND IMPLEMENTATION RECOMMENDATIONS Alberta’s injury challenge is significant. This Alberta Injury Control Strategy describes the specific challenges and identifies the key directions that the province needs to take to make Alberta a safer place to live. Now specific steps must be taken to bring the strategy to fruition. The following recommendations address the next steps to be taken. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE ALBERTA INJURY CONTROL STRATEGY • Enhance provincial coordination and collaboration Enhance provincial coordination and collaboration Authorize and approve the Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research with a provincial mandate and broad stakeholder endorsement for injury control coordination and collaboration support. The ACICR, funded by Alberta Health and Wellness, is viewed as another “health” organization with no funding from other government ministries to support its mission and operation. The ACICR has taken a facilitative approach in working with stakeholders across the province by supporting stakeholders with specific requests and expert resources as available. Some stakeholders are not familiar with the ACICR. With policy support from all provincial government ministries and other stakeholders, the profile and coordination role of the ACICR can be enhanced. The preferred coordination and collaborative role to be taken by the ACICR needs to be agreed upon by stakeholders in injury control, including the role of the ACICR in the Alberta Injury Control Strategy. • Develop and sell the business case Develop and sell the business case Preventable injuries cost Albertans billions of dollars annually in both direct and indirect costs. Evidence exists on effective interventions to prevent injuries and to manage injuries effectively when they occur. Through the coordinated leadership of ACICR and other stakeholders, develop a compelling business case to reinforce the cost benefits of effective injury prevention programs, followed by effective treatment, management and rehabilitation services. Such evidence will be critical to obtaining support for implementation of the Alberta Injury Control Strategy. • Develop an implementation plan Develop an implementation plan Entrust the coordinating body of ACICR and a broadened advisory body of stakeholders to develop a plan for implementing the Alberta Injury Control Strategy. The plan needs to identify specific injury priorities and initiatives on an annual basis, designating and obtaining agreements on specific stakeholder responsibilities and accountabilities. Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 56
• Facilitate stakeholder development of injury control plans Facilitate stakeholder development of injury control plans All injury control stakeholders need to take responsibility for becoming informed about the Alberta Injury Control Strategy and incorporating specific injury control initiatives into their business plans. Stakeholders need to participate in, contribute to and collaborate on the development of provincial, regional, and local injury control initiatives. Authorize ACICR to initiate and facilitate the process. • Monitor implementation and report progress Monitor implementation and report progress The implementation of the Alberta Injury Control Strategy needs to be monitored on an annual basis consistent with specific implementation plans. Stakeholders need to contribute annual information and data on their injury control programs as part of the overall monitoring of the Strategy. Responsibility for annual provincial progress/status reports needs to be designated. Authorize and support ACICR to do this implementation. Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 57
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Alberta Injury
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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
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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
Page 53 and 54: • Community-based and not-for-pro
Page 55 and 56: − − Educate and train your work
Page 57: • Federal Government − − −
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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