Publication
Ontario Regional Injury Data Report released
The OIPRC has released the Ontario Regional Injury Data Report, presenting the counts and rates of injury related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths by cause of injury for all Ontario health regions, as well as evidence-based practice recommendations for the top injury types in each region.
The OIPRC is pleased to announce an exciting new communications venue for IP practitioners, an email list called IP Chat. This listserv will be a new forum for discussions and questions among interested Ontario practitioners relating to injury prevention. You may wish to use this forum to pose questions of colleagues or to share information . To join, send an email to ipchat-subscribe@oiprc.parachutecanada.org.
Resources
Concussion toolkit now available
Parachute has launched a web-based tool kit on concussions, designed to create the conditions for active and safer play for hockey, football, rugby, soccer, baseball, ringette and lacrosse in Canada.
The Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre (OIPRC) helps injury prevention professionals reduce injury in Ontario.We do this through:
- coordination
- knowledge translation and interpretation
- knowledge exchange and communication
- leadership
- capacity-building
- system planning
See our website for more details on our services, training, publications, and online resources.
Ontario Road Safety Annual Report released
Research bulletin released on driver distraction and hands-free texting
Your opinions on concussion could win you an iPad
The Relationship between the Determinants of Health, Injuries, and Mental Health
May 27, 2013
Travelodge Ottawa
Population health programs that promote mental health across the lifespan will be highlighted. The day will also make the case and build connections between mental health and injury prevention.
Reducing alcohol-related harm through prevention planning and implementation
June 9, 2013
Ottawa Convention Centre
A Canadian Public Health Association pre-conference workshop presented by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Public Health Ontario, this builds on CPHA’s 2012 position paper on alcohol and local examples.
Public Health—Thinking Towards System 4.0
June 10, 2013
Ottawa Convention Centre
This panel is a fourth in an ongoing series at the CPHA conferences that examines how and why after new investments and greater focus on public health in Canada it still feels that public health is operating as a collection of parts rather than as a whole system.
Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference
November 5 - November 7, 2013
Hilton Bonaventure, Montreal
The theme is Evidence to Action: Prevent Injury and Violence Now! Presented by Parachute and the Canadian Red Cross.