Child & youth unintentional injury : Child and youth unintentional injury

We have The Atlantic Collaborative on Injury School bus safety made progress in reducing the number Prevention and Child Safety Link are 18/19 Child passenger safety of injuries, and Atlantic Canada’s rates of pleased to have united with Safe Kids 20/21 Preventing poisoning motor vehicle related deaths in children Canada and the Alberta Centre for Injury are now lower than the Canadian rates. [...] In the first year Prevention and the Alberta Centre cates that there is still a need to expand following new legislation in Nova for Injury Control and Research have the prevention focus to include other Scotia restricting the use of off-highway developed this report to provide an injury related issues. [...] Injury is responsible vehicles by those under age 16, the overview of the leading causes of for more deaths of children in Atlantic National Ambulatory Care Reporting unintentional injuries to children and Canada aged 1-14 than any other cause, System (NACRS) reported that the youth in the Atlantic region. [...] It is predicted that by 2015 the through legislation, programming, and CSL’s mission is to reduce the incidence percentage of adults over the age of 65 will infrastructure, although the degree and severity of unintentional injury to exceed the national average by 2%. [...] Research byWHO has confirmed • Advocate for legislation in each • Focus on reducing disparities in the that these kinds of multidisciplinary Atlantic province that will be the most entire population as well as in the methods are effective in reducing both comprehensive in Canada, and that sub-populations of families where the the risk and severity of injuries in higher- takes into account the heal