National Health Priority Area

INJURY PREVENTION & CONTROL Key features or description ‘INJURY’ relates to the adverse effects on the human body that may result from a range of different events. Injuries may be: Accidental – eg: falls, poisoning, drowning and car crashes, or Intentional – eg: suicide, attempted suicide and violence.

INJURY PREVENTION & CONTROL (IP&C) Reasons for IP&C to be included as a NHPA:  Injury was responsible for about 7% of the burden of disease (in DALYs) in Australia in  Almost 7.5%of all deaths in Australian in were injury related.  Injury is the main cause of death for people under the age of 45.  All injury cases are considered to be PREVENTABLE.  Incur significant cost to the individual and community

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DIRECTINDIRECT INTANGIBLE IndividualCommunityIndividualCommunityIndividual Community Costs of hospital and rehabilitation  Cost of surgery – broken leg  Medications for pain relief  Surgery after an accident  Physiotherap y to regain mobility  Aids – crutches and wheelchairs ● Cost of treatment paid through Medicare and cost of public hospital for treatment of the injured person ● Cost of pain relief paid through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) ● Cost to the government and private organisations of health promotion programs. EG TAC advertising campaign to address injury related to car crashes ● Cost of a carer for someone who has been injured and is unable to work - transport, shopping, cleaning, washing, cooking ● Loss of income as a person cannot work because of their injury ●The cost of social security payments through Centrelink for someone who cannot work or is disabled because of their injury ●Loss of taxation revenue by the government because of person is unable to work and not pay taxes ● Loss of productivity by the person who cannot work or a person who has to give up work to care for the person ●Person may experience a range of emotions – sadness, anger, frustration, fear, despair. Family and friends experience loss and sadness because of the injured person

Determinants of health that act as risk factors

NNational Road Safety Strategy OAustralian Transport Council F The NRSS works to achieve 4 key objectives: 1. Safe Roads  Improve the quality of infrastructure – bike lanes, pedestrian crossings and speed humps to reduce pedestrian injury, removal of vegetation and other hazards that limit visibility, rumble strips, barriers to separate flow of traffic 2. Safe speeds  National public education campaign about community safety benefits of complying with speed limits  Reduce speed limits at intersections to decrease risk of collision  More speed limits of 40km/h or lower in pedestrian and cycling areas  Point-to-point speed cameras – encourages motorist to slow down across the whole journey 3. Safe vehicles Governments working with manufacturers to produce safer cars 4. Safe people -Educate people and to assist them to develop skills required to reduce the risk of injuries on the road. -Working with police- promoting use of random breath testing to deter motorist from drink-driving -Educate drivers dangers of mobile phones OAim is to cut the road toll by at least 30% by 2020 by addressing such factors that contribute to road- related injuries such as infrastructure, road laws, human behaviour and vehicle safety A health promotion program relevant to INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL that has been introduced to reduce the burden of disease associated with injury