BC Injury Prevention Strategy Working Paper for Discussion
Jan 20, 2016
BC Injury Prevention Strategy
Working Paper for Discussion
Purpose
• To establish a framework for the injury prevention activities of government, crown corporations, NGOs, communities and individuals
• To establish clear direction for reducing the societal and economic burden of injury among all age groups in British Columbia
Development of the Strategy
• Follows an extensive process of consultation and collaboration with members of the injury prevention community in British Columbia which resulted in a comprehensive discussion paper
• Received the endorsement and support of the BC Injury Prevention Leadership Network, as well as the larger community of injury prevention professionals and practitioners in the province
Strategy Stakeholders
• Government and non-government organizations with an involvement in injury prevention
• Government will apply the Strategy across government portfolio areas
• Includes municipal government, non-government agencies, businesses, communities, families and individuals
Challenges
• Fragmentation of effort• Gaps in injury prevention activity• Injury Prevention Professionals and
Practitioners• Quality of, access to, and dissemination of
injury information• Injury Burden among First Nations and
Aboriginal Peoples (attending to TCA)
Elements
• Vision• Three Over-arching Goals• Six Strategic Objectives• Thirteen Strategic ActionsActing on
• Seven Key Injury IssuesUtilizing a Population Health Approach within a framework of
• Nine Principles
Population Health Approach
• Understand Risk and protective factors
• Identify Intervention point (host, agent, environment)
• Design Prevention Intervention (education, engineering, enforcement)
INTERVENTION
PREVENTION
RISK / PROTECTIVE FACTORS
CommunitySocialRelationshipIndividual
ECOLOGIC MODEL (including Social Determinants of Health)
Physical & Social Environment Agent Host
HADDON’S MATRIX
EngineeringEnforcementEducation
3 E’s of PREVENTION
SPECTRUM OF PREVENTION
APPLICATION TO: •Program and Policy Development •Tool Development •Program and Policy Evaluation•Gap Analysis
Evidence-based Approach
• addresses the multiple risk and protective factors that contribute to injury
• encourages environmental, social and behavioral change
• engages the people who are most at risk• involves action across multiple sectors
(e.g. health, police, education)• is sustained and reinforced over time
Principles
• Coordination and Collaboration• Relationship with First Nations• Shared Responsibility and Collective Action• Personal skills and responsibility• Safe Environments• High Quality, Comprehensive Injury Data• Effective Evidence-based decision-making• Integration• Anticipate and respond to change
Vision
Toward being The Best Place on Earth,British Columbia has the lowest injury rate of
any jurisdiction in the world
Over-arching Goals
• Achieve a positive safety culture– A positive safety culture is a shared set of beliefs,
attitudes, values and ways of behaving that support the prevention of injury, including improved safety and preventive skills
• Create safe, supportive environments– Safe, supportive environments are social and physical
surroundings or conditions that promote and support the prevention of injury
• Ensure supportive infrastructure– Supportive infrastructure includes the availability of
relevant injury prevention products and knowledge, in a timely manner to those who need them
Strategic Objectives
• Leadership, Planning and Priority Setting– To align stakeholders and optimize efficiency and
effectiveness
• Advocacy and Public Policy– To enable government, institution and organization
action to reduce the risk of injury in home, school, work, transport and recreational environments
• Community Capacity Development – To enable communities to design, implement, evaluate
and communicate information on injury prevention activity
Strategic Objectives
• Knowledge Transfer and Public Education– To increase awareness that most injuries are predictable
and preventable, and to enable people to reduce their risk of injury at home, school, work and play, and while traveling between these
• Engineering and Enforcement– To build in injury prevention and enable public and
organizational compliance with legislated safety requirements and organizational policy
• Research, Surveillance and Evaluation– To enable the development and dissemination of
relevant injury prevention products and knowledge, in a timely manner to those who need them
Injury Prevention Priority Areas
• Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes (including bicycle and pedestrian injuries)
• Falls• Unintentional Poisoning• Violence and Abuse• Occupational and vocational (including
Sport and Recreation) injuries• Drowning and near drowning• Fire, Flames and Hot Substances
Falls
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Falls
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Strategic Objectives
VISION
Toward being The Best Place on Earth,British Columbia has the lowest injury rate of any jurisdiction in the world
GOALS
Achieve a positive safety culture Create safe, supportive environments Ensure supportive infrastructure
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS
Leadership, Planning and Priority Setting• Foster leadership in injury prevention• Develop, implement and monitor provincial injury
prevention strategies for priority areas• Ensure appropriate resource levels for injury preventionAdvocacy and Public Policy• Maintain and enhance the legislative and policy framework
supporting injury preventionCommunity Capacity Development• Raise community awareness and commitment to injury
prevention• Develop and implement effective community injury
prevention interventionsKnowledge Transfer and Public Education• Increase awareness and understanding of injury
prevention• Strengthen injury prevention knowledge and skillEngineering and Enforcement• Design and develop safe environments, systems and
products• Enforce compliance with legislated safety requirementsResearch, Surveillance and Evaluation • Improve and maintain an ongoing system of injury
surveillance in BC• Compile, analyze and report on the trends and patterns of
injury in BC• Ensure injury research that contributes to the body of
knowledge and guides the development and implementation of evidence-based injury prevention in BC
PRINCIPLES
Coordination and Collaboration
Relationship with First Nations
Shared Responsibility and Collective Action
Personal skills and responsibility
Safe Environments
High Quality, Comprehensive Injury Data
Effective Evidence-based decision-making
Integration
Anticipate and respond to change
Next Steps
• Review and provide input and guidance to subsequent drafts
• Consider Implementation Plan and structure (leads, collaborators)
• Timing?