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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 |
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Home>Council Services>Health and Safety>Safety>Injury Prevention
Injuries fall into two categories; accidental and intentional. Common accidental injuries include broken bones, cuts, burns and drowning. Some injuries are intentional acts such as physical assault, poisoning and self-harm.
Injury Prevention has been recognised as an issue within the City of Darebin. Council strives to address the key factors that influence the health and well being of the local community to ensure a safer environment.
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Program Objectives | | - With reference to significant injury types and causes within the Darebin population, the research will develop a response to significant areas of concern around intentional and unintentional injury prevention in Darebin.
- Develop a literature review and scoping paper to inform future research and focus on self harm and suicide in Darebin.
- Develop a research paper on the main unintentional injury causes for children aged 0-8 with a view to developing recommendations for injury prevention programs for this age group that could be facilitated by existing services in Darebin, Council’s Community Health and Safety Unit and other Community Service units.
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| Outcomes | | - Selection of unintentional and intentional injury types that are a significant risk for groups within the Darebin population. These will include a focus upon suicide and self harm, and a focus on unintentional injury prevention for young children.
- Application for Federal Government Injury Prevention Grant for the injury prevention in young children research and prevention project.
- Continuation of the injury prevention research into the 2006/07 Annual Strategy.
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