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| What are the 6 components of Injury prevention? |
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Understanding the science of injury prevention.
Injury prevention epidemiology.
Data and data analysis.
Program planning and evaluation.
Understanding of injury prevention and violence.
Advocacy efforts. |
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| any damage done to the body from acute exposure to mechanical, thermal elcrtical or chemical energy or the lack of essentials (oxygen or heat) |
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True or false:
Injuries are accidents |
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| False: Injuries are predictable events |
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| What are the four categories of injuries? |
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Mechanism
Intent
Place of Injury
Nature of Injury |
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| What are the 5 mechanisms of injury? |
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Mechanical
Thermal
Chemical
Electrical
Ionizing radiation |
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| external agent that precipitate the injury |
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| purpose/awareness of risk of injury |
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| What are the two sub sections of intent? |
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| intentional and unintentional |
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| ___% of all deaths among people ages 15 to 24 years are injury-related |
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| More people ages_____years die as a result of injury than from any other causes combined |
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| Describe the injury pyramid |
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| 1 death=41 hospitalizations=100 hospitalizations=1100 ER injuries= self-care injuries |
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| What is the leading COD in the US for both sexes? |
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| Unintentional injury is the ___ leading COD for all ages |
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| Unintentional injury is the ___ leading COD for ages 1-44 and under 1 |
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| Injuries are ___% of all ER visits |
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| Injuries are ____% of all EMS transports |
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| How many ER visits per year involve children ages 5-14? |
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| What is the annual cost of injuries? |
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| What percent of injury costs are paid by private sources? |
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| What percent of injury costs are paid by public sources? |
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| Years of Potential Life Lost |
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| Who is Dr. William Haddon? |
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Founder of Injury Prevention field
First head of USA Federal Highway Safety Agency
Founder of HIghway Loss Data Institue |
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| What are the 3 Haddon Injury Factors? |
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| Human, Agent, and Environmental (physical and social) |
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| What are the three Haddon Injury Phases? |
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| Pre-event, Event, post-event |
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| What is the goal of injury prevention? |
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| Actively preventing an injury to happen via understanding an changing circumstances present when injury occurs |
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| What are the 10 Haddon Countermeasures? |
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Prevent the creation of the hazard.
Reduce the amount of energy contained in the hazard.
Prevent the release of a hazard that already exists.
Modify the rate or spatial distribution of the hazard.
Separate, in time or space, the hazard from that which is to be protected.
Separate the hazard from that which is to be protected by a material barrier.
Modify relevant basic qualities of the hazard.
Make what is to be protected more resistant to damage from the hazard.
9. Begin to counter the damage already done by the hazard.
10. Stabilize, repair, and rehabilitate the object of the damage. |
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| What is the injury prevention process? |
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| Id and define problem; collect and analyze data (epidemiology and biostats);design prevention program; implement program; evaluate program |
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| What are the 5 ways to prevent injuries? |
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| Education/empowerment; engineering; environ. modif., enactment, enforcement |
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