Quantifying the economic and societal burden of injury can provide physicians and policymakers with comprehensive data to support the development and implementation of broader injury prevention initiatives.

Evidence-based childhood injury prevention policies should be standardized across Canada.

Our objective was to determine whether the British Columbia experience implementing a province-wide prevention program reduced AHT hospitalization rates.

The purpose of this study is to describe firefighter injuries and deaths in structure-related fires and to investigate the underlying connection between building properties, including fire safety measures, and their effects on the risk to firefighters responding to a fire event.

This report explores the impact of residential fires on children and youth in five provinces from 2005 to 2015.

Because injury prevention is a priority public health issue in British Columbia, Canada, a 3-year consultation was undertaken to understand public attitudes towards preventable injuries and mount a province-wide social marketing campaign aimed at adults aged 25–55 years.

The report aims to help the reader to understand the causes of injury, disease and death among Canadian firefighters through an extensive review of previous research, as well as a detailed analysis of injury claims data.

We examined the effects of an intervention to increase opportunities for nature and risky play in the outdoor play environments of two childcare centres using a repeated measures mixed methods design.

In those with mild concussion, strict cognitive rest is not needed, but rather a decrease in usual activity to a level that allows children to remain asymptomatic, followed by a gradual return to learning.

There are clear benefits to expanding the scope of the Smoke Alarm Movement to incorporate carbon monoxide (CO) alarms.