The Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre regularly receives requests for information about ordering this toolkit, developed by SMARTRISK. The goal of the toolkit is to reduce the incidence of falls among older adults. To learn more about the toolkit and how to order it, visit Smart Moves
A medical student working on a placement at SMARTRISK produced the following evaluation tool for printed material targeting seniors’ falls. Due to requests, we are posting the material here for anyone who’s interested.
Injury costs Canadians $19.8 billion annually – more than $600 for each man, woman and child in the country, according to a new report released by SMARTRISK today, The Economic Burden of Injury in Canada. In fact, injury – from falls, traffic, drowning, suicide, violence and other means – remains the leading cause of death for Canadians aged one to 44, taking the lives of 13,667 people in 2004.
For the press release in English and French and to download the executive summaries and full report, see below.
On Tuesday November 18, 2008, the Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre released three Evidence-Based Synthesis Practice Documents on the following topics:
Alcohol Related Injury Download file
Falls Across the Lifespan Download file
Sports and Recreation Injuries Download file
The purpose of these documents are to inform Ontario public health professionals and their community partners of evidence-informed practice for the implementation of the Prevention of Injury and Substance Misuse standard of the new Ontario Public Health Standards and Protocols, released October 31, 2008. These documents are based upon earlier systematic literature reviews conducted by the Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre staff in 2007-2008. The earlier reviews are available by request from the Resource Centre.
The Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre has released the report Injuries among Seniors in Ontario: A Descriptive Analysis of Emergency Department and Hospitalization Data.
Key findings include: - In 2004/05, there were over 1.3 million emergency department visits due to injury in Ontario. Adults 65 years of age and older accounted for 11% of these visits, totalling over 146,000 visits. - There were a total of 76,444 injury hospitalizations in Ontario during the 2004/05 fiscal year. Seniors accounted for 40% of these hospitalizations, which amounts to almost 31,000 injury hospitalizations. - Falls were by far the most common type of injury for seniors, followed by transport incidents.
The report also presents patterns of emergency visits and hospitalizations for a variety of factors, such as age, sex, month of admission, cause of injury and discharge status. In addition, injury patterns are broken down by region and Local Health Integration Network.
Two sources of injury data were used: emergency department data from the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) and acute care hospitalization data from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) at the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Download the report [PDF - 3.7MB]
A new report released on September 26, 2006 reveals that injury costs Ontarians in excess of $5.7 billion each year and takes the lives of more than 4,000 people. The Economic Burden of Injury in Ontario is the first report to address the burden of both unintentional and intentional injury in Ontario.
“This report reveals that injury poses one of the greatest burdens on Ontario’s health care system,” said Dr. Robert Conn, President and CEO of SMARTRISK. “But this story is about more than just economics. It is also about individuals who are seriously hurt, disabled and killed. There is an incredible human toll associated with preventable injury.”
Injury is the leading cause of death for people aged one to 44 years. The majority of these deaths are preventable.
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