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Primary injury prevention
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Keeping an injury from ever occurring.
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Secondary injury prevention
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Reducing the effects of an injury that has already happen. Usually where EMS is involved.
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Tertiary prevention
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The effort to rehabiltate a person who has survived an injury.
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Definition of "Injuries" according to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, part of the CDC
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"The intentional or unintentional damage to a person resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electronical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen."
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Morbidity
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Nonfatal injuries.
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Mortality
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Fatal injuries.
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Years of potential life lost
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A way of measuring and comparing the overall impact of deaths resulting from different causes. It is calculated based on a fixed age minus the age at death. Usually fixed life expectancy is around 65 years old.
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The 4 Es of Prevention
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Education, Enforcement, Engineering/Environment, and Economic Incentives
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Example of Engineering/Environment prevent
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Changing design of products or spacing in roads, add prevention without causing the potential injuried to consciously act, called passive interventions.
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Haddon matrix
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Injury prevention based on three phases of the event: pre-event, event, and post event. Prevention can be placed in any phase.
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Injury surveillance
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The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of injury data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice.
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What are anatomical risk factors for children to injuries?
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Their developing bodies, including a larger head in proportion to the body, thinner skin, and a smaller air way, put them at higher risk of injury and of being more seriously affected by the injury than adults.
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