• THE STRATEGY
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• STRATEGY EVALUATION
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• IMPLEMENTATION
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• INJURY PRIORITIES
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• The Strategy
• Strategy Framework
• Why a Strategy?
• Principles
• Treaty of Waitangi
• Vision & goals
• • 1 Raise awareness
  • 2 Strengthen capability
  • 3 Develop safe systems
  • 4 Enhance policy
  • 5 Collaborate
  • 6 Advance knowledge
  • 7 Develop interventions
  • 8 Resource appropriately
  • 9 Implement national strategies
  • 10 Foster leadership
• Delivering the Strategy
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Strengthen capability

Objective 2

Strengthen injury prevention capacity and capability.

	Increase understanding of how injuries happen and how the key contributing factors can be eliminated or controlled.
	Promote the development of personal skills in injury prevention within the wider community through the education sector, workplaces, public campaigns and community-based programmes.
	Increase the capacity and capability of the injury prevention workforce through education and training programmes and support mechanisms.
	Increase the capacity and capability of Maori service providers to develop, implement and evaluate effective injury prevention interventions.
	Increase the capacity and capability of Pacific and other ethnic service providers to develop, implement and evaluate effective injury prevention interventions.
	Integrate injury prevention into curricula and unit standards, and into relevant established education programmes and courses from early childhood through to tertiary level.
	Establish formal injury prevention qualifications.
	Support injury prevention research centres and multi-disciplinary research teams and encourage them to focus on key injury issues.
	Support the training of the Maori injury prevention workforce, including practitioners and researchers.
	Support the training of the Pacific, and other ethnic, injury prevention workforces, including practitioners and researchers.