Nova Scotia's renewed injury prevention strategy : 425 Nova Scotians die each year as a result of injury

Y. operates • The Economic Burden of Unintentional Injury in through a partnership between the provincial Atlantic Canada showed for the first time the departments of Health Promotion and Protection economic toll of unintentional injury in the Atlantic and Education, and Dalhousie University. [...] In 2007, in anticipation of the five-year anniversary of the Nova Scotia Injury Prevention Strategy, the Department of Health Promotion and Protection and Injury Free Nova Scotia began to engage stakeholders in a process to renew the strategy. [...] The advisory committee • strengthen the desire and commitment of provided strategic advice and guidance, and played stakeholders to work collaboratively and support an active role in designing the consultative process implementation of the strategy used to renew the strategy. [...] The purpose of the survey strengthening networks and linkages was to gather input and feedback from stakeholders regarding their work in injury prevention and how it Survey information was shared during the related to the original strategy, and to identify symposium, and stakeholders concurred on the strengths and areas for improvement. [...] As the root causes of crime mirror the determinants of health and Strategy for Children and Youth the root causes of injury and disease, there is much Our Kids Are Worth It!, the provincial Strategy for overlap between the guiding principles of the crime Children and Youth, was developed in 2007 following prevention strategy and the Nova Scotia Injury recommendations from the Nunn Commission Preve