Deck 27: Injury Prevention and Control

Question 1

Describe how effective injury prevention requires a mixture of strategies and methods.

Answer 1

The challenge in intervention planning is to select the most effective combination of strategies to produce the desired results. Strategies include behavior change (whether by education or by legislation) and technology and engineering changes. Identifying target populations and deciding on the proper combination of strategies are not exclusive to injury prevention but are part of the fundamental competencies of a public health professional.

Question 2

Describe the role of the public health agency in legislation and regulation of injury control.

Answer 2

-Safety standards applied to products and operations
-Issue regulatory standards
-Environmental standards
-Laws regulating human behavior
-Succeed depends upon whether they are enforced, whether penalties are effective, and whether basic assumptions underlying the regulations and their enforcement are valid.

Question 3

Think of an injury event, and determine prevention strategies for each of the three phases: pre-event, event, and post-event.

Answer 3

Pre-event: preventing the event of incident before it happens
Example: speed control
Event: preventing injury while the event is happening
Example: adequate child restraint and safety, belts, and airbags
Post-event: minimizing adverse results after the event has occurred
Example: crash detection systems that notify EMS