A study was proposed to analyze morbidity and mortality for all causes of poisoning in order to investigate patterns and trends associated with intent, age, sex, health service delivery area, and cause.
This highly visual, online resource utilizes the latest evidence, novel data charts, and infographics that make the case for injury prevention.
Using an ecological approach, we analyzed linked data from British Columbia’s (BC) universal health care insurance plan, worker compensation, vital statistics, and census databases to identify community-level risk markers for hospitalization due to injury among the Aboriginal population of BC.
This Atlas provides a visual demonstration to highlight the social and physical context for injuries as well as their frequency in different age and sex categories, and includes a specific focus on children and youth.
This report was prepared in light of growing interest from BC Health Authorities (HAs) regarding the distribution of the relative burden of managing motor-vehicle (MV) injury patients in BC.
Drs. Ian Pike and Allison Macpherson present a review on the development of Injury Indicators for Canadian Children and Youth, and discuss how to obtain input on the look, feel and function of a Canadian Child and Youth Injury Indicators Dashboard.
The purpose of this report is to highlight the burden of injury among the children and youth of BC, provide the available evidence for prevention strategies, and comment on the implications for policy and practice.
The information presented in this report provides a review of baseline injury data among residents in the Vancouver Island Health Authority.
View executive summary (PDF) » The injury literature shows that patterns of injury can be identified on the basis of age, gender, cause, social characteristics and geographic location (Rivara & Mueller, 1987). These patterns represent opportunities for prevention. For example, injuries have been found to be more common in lower income households, and people living in rural areas are at greater risk than their metropolitan counterparts. These patterns point to…
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