{"id":11118,"date":"2016-11-28T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=11118"},"modified":"2021-02-05T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:23:18","slug":"injury-prevention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/clinical-services\/deptpgrmcs\/departments\/trauma-services\/injury-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/InjuryPrevention_DidYouKnow_EN.jpg\" alt=\"Injury Prevention Did You Know EN\" width=\"558\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What is an injury?<\/h2>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization (WHO),<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/EnergyExposurePhysicalDamageInjury_EN.jpg\" alt=\"Energy Exposure Physical Damage Injury\" width=\"805\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What is Injury Prevention?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Strategies, policies or programs<\/li>\n<li>Purpose: Reduce or Eliminate occurrence and severity of injuries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why should we prevent injuries?<\/h2>\n<p>According to Parachute, preventable Injury is the <strong>leading cause of death<\/strong> for Canadians aged one to 44.<\/p>\n<h2>How can we prevent injuries?<\/h2>\n<p>We can prevent injuries by:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PrevenInjuriesby_graphic_EN.jpg\" alt=\"Preven Injuries by graphic EN\" width=\"666\" height=\"82\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What is the cost of injuries in Ontario?<\/h2>\n<p>According to the Cost of Injury in Canada report released June 2015:<\/p>\n<p>The cost is rising!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter img-responsive\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CostofInjuries_EN.jpg\" alt=\"Cost of Injuries\" width=\"827\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more detailed information please review the full report on the <a href=\"https:\/\/parachute.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cost_of_Injury-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cost of Injury in Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What are the main causes of injuries in Ontario?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Falls<\/li>\n<li>Transport incidents<\/li>\n<li>Self-harm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-center\">Injuries aren\u2019t accidents!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\">Most of them are <em>predictable<\/em> and therefore <em>preventable<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is an injury? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), What is Injury Prevention? Strategies, policies or programs Purpose: Reduce or Eliminate occurrence and severity of injuries Why should we prevent injuries? According to Parachute, preventable Injury is the leading cause of death for Canadians aged one to 44. How can we prevent injuries? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":11076,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11118\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}