TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Mosby's paramedic textbook (4th ed) - Chapter 3: Injury prevention and public health

Chapter 3 provides knowdlege of injury prevention and public health. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Identify roles of the emergency medical services (EMS) community in injury prevention, describe the epidemiology of trauma in the United States, define injury,. | 9/10/2012 1 Chapter 3 Injury Prevention and Public Health 2 Lesson Epidemiology and Overview 3 Copyright © 2013 by Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC, an Ascend Learning Company 1 9/10/2012 Learning Objectives • Identify roles of the emergency medical services (EMS) community in injury prevention. • Describe the epidemiology of trauma in the United States. • Define injury. 4 Learning Objectives • Describe Haddon’s matrix and the injury triangle. • Relate how alterations in the epidemiological triangle can influence injury and disease patterns. 5 Injury Epidemiology • Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death in ages 1–44 – Fifth leading cause overall – Result in more years of life lost before age 65 – 120,000 injury‐related deaths in the United States in 2006 6 Copyright © 2013 by Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC, an Ascend Learning Company 2 9/10/2012 Injury Epidemiology • Financial view – Effect of fatal and nonfatal unintentional injuries was $ billion in 2006 – Equaled $5,700 per household – Quality of life lost valued at $3, billion – Total cost: $3, billion in 2006 • 36% of emergency department visits in the United States are related to injury – Accounts for 41 million + visits to emergency departments in 2005 7 8 Injury Prevention Overview • Primary injury prevention – Injury control strategy of preventing rather than treating injury • Preventive strategies – More lives saved, less money spent – Identifying strategies weighs heavily on data collected – Success depends on teaching patients 9 Copyright © 2013 by Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC, an Ascend Learning Company 3 9/10/2012 Injury Prevention Overview • Paramedics – Respected in community – Welcomed in homes, businesses – Can find injury patterns, intervene on behalf of persons at risk 10 Injury Concepts • Injury definition – Unrelated nature of injuries hindered study of injury • All injuries are the result of: – .

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