Advance knowledge

Advance injury prevention knowledge and information


	Investigate the social and economic costs of injury.
	Investigate the demographic (e.g. age and gender), geographic, and socio-economic characteristics of groups most at risk of injury, and the factors that contribute to injury, both underlying (e.g. social conditions) and more immediate (e.g. alcohol).
	Investigate the circumstances of specific injury events and near-misses, and collate and analyse this information as a means of identifying opportunities for prevention.
	Improve injury surveillance systems through the co-ordination and enhancement of injury databases and the aggregation and publication of timely and comprehensive injury statistics.
	Improve the availability and quality of ethnicity information in injury databases by ensuring consistency with standards for the collection, production and presentation of ethnic data recommended by Statistics New Zealand.
	Review the literature (national and international) to identify proven or promising interventions.
	Ensure injury prevention interventions are evaluated to determine their effectiveness.
	Disseminate injury statistics and information on interventions and their effectiveness in ways that are relevant and accessible to users such as injury prevention practitioners and service providers.
	Ensure that injury prevention research strategies focus on key injury issues, particularly those where effective interventions are not well established.
	Investigate methods to measure changes in safety culture and safe environments.