Strategies, Research and Reports

Strategies

• Injury Free Manitoba: A Provincial Injury Prevention Strategy
  Manitoba’s Provincial Injury Prevention Strategy has been developed in partnership with government and key stakeholders organizations involved in injury prevention in Manitoba. The Strategy is built on the vision of creating a safe and injury free Manitoba. This vision will be realized by engaging Manitobans in making injury prevention a priority. Strategic goals include reducing the risk of injury, reducing the societal costs of injury, and changing attitudes and behaviours.
  
  
• Reclaiming Hope: Manitoba’s Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy
  

Research and Reports

• Injuries in Manitoba: A 10-Year Review
  This report outlines the injury trends in Manitoba over a ten-year period from 1992-2001 and includes data on both unintentional and intentional injury.
  
  
• The Economic Burden of Unintentional Injury in Manitoba Report
  The Economic Burden of Unintentional Injury in Manitoba study was conducted in 2003. It describes the enormous costs of unintentional injury, both human and monetary, to the citizens of Manitoba. It has been estimated that unintentional injuries alone cost Manitoba $819 million annually. The report states that in Manitoba 18 people/hour are injured due to unintentional injury daily (over 400/day), roughly 1 person dies daily from these injuries, and over 3500 are disabled annually.

• Injury Prevention: A Review of Best Practices
  The Injury Prevention: A Review of Best Practices series outlines a number of best practices recommendations in the areas of drowning, falls and fall-related injuries, motor vehicle occupant injuries, and suffocation and choking injuries. The series is designed to be a resource for communities and organizations working in these particular areas of injury prevention.
  
  
• Falls & Related Injuries among Older Canadians: Fall-related Hospitalizations and Prevention Initiatives
  This report, prepared for the Division of Aging and Seniors, Public Health Agency of Canada,  is an analysis of the 2008/2009 Canadian hospitalization data for fall-related injuries among persons aged 65 years and older .  The analysis is followed by the results of a scan of fall prevention programs currently operating across Canada.
   
• Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
  This site features a number of important reports on injury.
  
  
• Traffic Injury Research Foundation
  The Traffic Injury Research Foundation is a national, independent road safety institute. Since its inception in 1964, TIRF has become internationally recognized for its accomplishments in a wide range of subject areas related to identifying the causes of road crashes and developing programs and policies to address them effectively.