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Injury Research and Prevention Unit","@language":"en"}],"DateAvailable":[{"@value":"2021-10-01T19:28:43Z","@language":"en"}],"DateIssued":[{"@value":"2001","@language":"en"}],"Description":[{"@value":"A factsheet on general injury prevention","@language":"en"}],"DigitalResourceOriginalRecord":[{"@value":"https:\/\/circle.library.ubc.ca\/rest\/handle\/2429\/79850?expand=metadata","@language":"en"}],"FullText":[{"@value":"  PRACTICESSAFE RISKS&Yes, accidents happen, and people get injured as a result of them--but they do so in predictable ways.Do incidents like these sound familiar?A 42-year-old swimmer is caught in an ocean riptide and, as a result,drowns.An 18-year-old driver is thrown through the windshield of his vehicleduring a collision, resulting in a fatal head injury.These things happen again and again.These are just two examples of the hundreds of recent deaths orserious injuries in British Columbia from events that were not onlypredictable, but preventable.Research indicates that as many as 9 out of 10unintentional injuries could be prevented.\u201cAccidents happen.\u201dAbout 1,500 British Columbiansdie from unintentional injurieseach year.2Leading Causes of Deaths due toUnintentional Injuries in Canada1All ages, 1997Motor vehicle traffic 2,867 deathsFalls 1,319 deathsPoisoning    703 deathsDrowning    380 deathsSuffocation    379 deathsFires and Burns    295 deathsVery!  Unintentional injuries are the single most commoncause of deaths for Canadians between the ages of 1 - 44.INJURIESsee over...Most of these deaths could easily have been prevented!HOW SERIOUS A PROBLEM IS THIS?ARE INJURIES PREVENTABLE?1Health Canada, 20012BC Stats, 1994-981Causes of Death in Canada Ages 1 - 44, 1997Other Causes30%Cancer19%Diseases of the Circulatory System10%Suicide16%Unintentional Injuries25%CAN WE ELIMINATE ALL INJURIES?SO WHAT CAN WE DO?We can learn to take safe risks:Use proper safety equipment (proper helmets for sportsor work, seatbelts for drivers, etc.)Educate ourselves (ocean safety for swimmers, poisonprevention measures, etc.)Connect with injury prevention groupsin your community (local health units, fire departments,schools, etc.)Taking safe risks means taking responsibility for the consequencesof our actions.  It means stopping accidents before they \u201chappen\u201d.If the swimmer caught in the riptide had known to swim sidewaysto the current, she might be safely swimming in the ocean today.If the driver had been wearing a seatbelt there\u2019s a good chancethat he too, would still be alive.For further information on how you can prevent injuries contact yourlocal health unit office or the BC Injury Research and PreventionUnit.Probably not. We can\u2019t live ourlives in a protective bubble......and some minorinjuries such asscrapes and bruisesare a part of playingand learning.  Moreserious injuries,however, need ourattention and workto prevent them.phone: (604) 875-3776fax: (604) 875-3569e-mail: injury@cw.bc.cawww.injuryresearch.bc.caThe British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU) is committedto meeting the challenge of making BC a safe place to live and work by coordinatingefforts that will prevent or reduce injuries, their consequences, and costs.     more on injuries...This document has been made possible by a financial contribution from the Officefor Injury Prevention, BC Ministry of Health and Ministry Responsible for Seniors,and the support of Dr. Shaun Peck and Mr. Bryon Taylor..INJURIES","@language":"en"}],"Genre":[{"@value":"Report","@language":"en"}],"IsShownAt":[{"@value":"10.14288\/1.0402398","@language":"en"}],"Language":[{"@value":"eng","@language":"en"}],"PeerReviewStatus":[{"@value":"Unreviewed","@language":"en"}],"Provider":[{"@value":"Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library","@language":"en"}],"Rights":[{"@value":"Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International","@language":"en"}],"RightsURI":[{"@value":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/","@language":"en"}],"ScholarlyLevel":[{"@value":"Faculty","@language":"en"},{"@value":"Researcher","@language":"en"}],"Title":[{"@value":"Injuries : Safe risks & practices","@language":"en"}],"Type":[{"@value":"Text","@language":"en"}],"URI":[{"@value":"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/79850","@language":"en"}],"SortDate":[{"@value":"2001-12-31 AD","@language":"en"}],"@id":"doi:10.14288\/1.0402398"}