HPRO 3351 Lecture Notes - Health Promotion, Safety Car, Peer Pressure
28 Jan 2013
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Center of the model covers the context. The next layer is called a public health approach: defining the problem, identifying risk & protective factors, selecting an intervention, implementing the program, evaluating the program, community, other key stakeholders, partnership, political. I. e. helmetmatch. com was a new initiative to enforce the law positively. Injury prevention 2 i. e. loss of independence, loss of relationships: human costs, direct costs, indirect costs i. e. hospital costs. **know the difference between each category of cost" i. e. loss of productivity. Total cost of injuries is . 8 billion: potential years of life lost (pyll) is usually standardized to 75 i. e. person who dies in a car crash at age 45 has 30 pyll. It"s a frequency, so it can be turned into a rate. Vital statistics (deaths: population based, basic information (age, sex, geography, date, cause and nature of injury, coroner investigation, basic information + individual reports can be quite detailed.
