About Injury Prevention

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About Injury Prevention

Injuries Are Not Accidents,
And Are Therefore
Predictable and Preventable

Overview

What are Injuries? (pdf - 66 KB) Get the defintion and types of injuries and how to categorize them.	Injuries are a leading cause of death, 2002. (pdf - 95 KB) See the statistics for all of U.S. and American Indian and Alaska Natives.
What is Injury Prevention? (pdf - 55 KB). A quick overview on the guiding principles and key points of injury prevention.	A Blueprint for a Comprehensive Injury Prevention Program (pdf-52.5 KB) Shows an outline structure on one way to to build an injury prevention program.
Cost of Injuries
Costs of Injuries (pdf-48 KB) Information on the economical burden of injuries reinforced with the financial averages of injuries.	Financial Burden of Injury-Related Hospitalizations to an Alaska Native Health System. (pdf-253 KB). From 1994-1998, the total expenditures for the 511 injuries resulting in hospitalizations was $4,145,440.
Cost of Injuries in the U.S. - A Report to Congress. (pdf-51 KB) Published in 1989, it has proved to be a landmark publication showing the need to address injury as a public health problem.

Injury Pyramid. (pdf-61 KB). For each death from injury, many more result in hospitalization, emergency department	Injury Data & Stats Data is an important part of having a successful injury prevention program. Get information here on how to better understand data and statistics.
Injuries are not accidents. (pdf-62 KB) The word accident implies that it cannot be prevented, but crashes are predictable and preventable.