Illness And Injury Prevention

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are specific prevention measures or activities designed to increase positive health and safety outcomes

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Interventions

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is defined as keeping an injury from ever occuring

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Primary Injury Prevention

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reducing the effects of an injury that has already happened.

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Secondary Injury Prevention

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As EMS providers, It is important to teach others why you see an injury

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reoccurring at the same place

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From ages 1-44, _______________
________ are the leading killer.

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unintentional injuries

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It is much easier to measure death rates than to measure ____________
__________ rates

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non fatal morbidity

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A/an _________________ risk is a potentially hazardous situation in which the well-being of people can be harmed

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Injury risk

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The most effective injury prevention efforts reflect a _____________ of these interventions

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combination

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made by elected government bodies enacting laws that require sage practices.

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Legislation

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are made by bureaucracies or agencies that set policies and establish procedures that control the manufacture, sale, and/or use of products.

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Regulations

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sets policy when lawsuits are brought against manufacturers or distributors of dangerous products.

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Litigation

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automatic protection from injury, often without any conscious change of behavior by the individual

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passive interventions

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educate people to do a specific task

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Automatic Protections Options 1

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require that automatic devices prevent operator error

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Automatic Protections Options 2

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The public health model identifies and seeks to control 3 factors

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host, agent, environment

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created a matrix that identified several principles of injury prevention

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William Haddon Jr.

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The Haddon Matrix added these factors to the public health model

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pre-event, event, post-event

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collection and analysis of injuries. Statistics will be used to affect change (the last link).

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Injury surveillance

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As part of the health system, Paramedics need to triage their focus on

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Injury prevention

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your ____________ or ________ EMS department or public health office will have the most data about injury statistics and is a good starting place to gather information.

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regional, state

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characteristics that increase the chance of disease or injury.

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risk factors

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a prevention method using children to share prevention techniques that were learned through this method.

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pass-along effect

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water, intense heat, toxic agents, high energy potential

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risk factors for children

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the highest priority are assigned to those types of injuries that are

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common, severe, preventable

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community prevention programs will consist of teams that will use

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Implementation plans

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simple, measurable, accurate, reportable, trackable

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SMART

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access to fire arms, alcohol abuse, being male, hx of child abuse, mental illness, poverty

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6 factors of intentional injuries

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this method emphasizes the need to carefully establish goals and objectives, with measurable outcomes.

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5 step program

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conduct a community assessment

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1st step of 5 steps

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define the injury problem

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2nd step of 5 steps

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set goals and objectives

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3rd step of 5 steps

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this general statement about the long-term changes the prevention initiatives are designed to make.

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Goals

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These should be specific, time-limited, and quantifiable.

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Objectives

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a type of objective that focuses on distribution within a time frame

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Process objectives

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a type of objective that focus on the results of the prevention efforts

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Outcome (impact) objectives

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plan and test interventions

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4th step of 5 steps

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implement and evaluate interventions

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5th step of 5 steps

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will definitively tell you whether you met your goals and objectives.

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Formal evaluations

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interventions demand _____________
_____________ to be effective.

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Ongoing attention

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funding for a prevention program can include donations from

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local media, grants, sponsorships

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very few calls demand the use of

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lights and sirens

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this is a perfect time to reinforce a message. However, it is not appropriate for every situation

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teachable moment

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collection and analysis of data starts with the

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PCR

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The 1996 Consensus Statement on the EMS Role in Primary Injury Prevention emphasized that primary injury prevention is

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an essential part of EMS

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deaths caused by injury or disease

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mortality

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number of not fatally injured or disabled people expressed as a rate.

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morbidity

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are two agencies that may be contacted regarding recurring highway accidents

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DOT & NHTSA

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this is a great organization to help prevention of intoxication related traffic accidents

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MADD

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education

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one of the four E's

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enforcement

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one of the four E's

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engineering/environment

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one of the four E's

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Economic Incentives

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one of the four E's