JUNE 2003 - Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research

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Figure B-12 Emergency room visits for injury, Alberta, 1998-1999 ER Visits for Injury, Alberta, 1998-1999 Falls Struck Unspecified Cutting Piercing Overexertion Adverse Effects Other Source: Health Surveillance, Alberta Health and Wellness Emergency room visits for injury are combined for 1998 and 1999. Falls were the major reason for emergency room visits during this time, followed by being struck with an object or by a person. Adverse effects and motor vehicle injuries were the other two major causes for injury emergency room visits. MV Sports Sufffocation Natural Environmentasl Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 74
Rank order of causes of emergency room visits Figure B-13 shows the rank order of causes of emergency room visits by age as combined for 1998 and 1999. Falls were the major cause of injury emergency room visits for those aged one to 19 years and 30 years and over. Falls ranked as the second major cause of injury emergency room visits for those aged 25 to 29. Being struck by an object or person was the major cause of injury emergency room visits for those aged 20 to 29 years. This injury cause was also prominent for those aged one to 19, ranking as second and third causes. Adverse effects ranked second for injury emergency room visits for those aged up to one year and those aged 55 to 89 years. Injury emergency room visits due to sports injuries ranked second among those aged 10 to 19 years. Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 75
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JUNE 2003
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Alberta Injury
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What are the injury control issues?
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Focus on the future—making Albert
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Outcome indicator Current status Ta
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Recommended Actions • Develop and
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Recommended Actions • Implement t
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Making Alberta the Safest Place to
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Figure 1 Injury control model BACKG
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PURPOSE OF THE ALBERTA INJURY CONTR
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Injuries may be further understood
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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 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: Figure B-11 Rank order of injury ca
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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