Theme | Sub-theme | Expressed Needs | Areas of Potential Support |
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Current Public Health Practice Challenges in Injury Prevention | Collaboration and Networking | ā¢ Need for increased collaboration with other public health units ā¢ Need for collaboration with research and local and national research networks ā¢ Need for continued networking for public health practitioners in injury prevention | ā¢ Explore the possibility of housing all injury resources in one place ā¢ Assist with a process and framework to develop, enhance, or amalgamate existing networks to best support learning and coordination of efforts toward injury prevention work |
Capacity and Resource Constraints | Access to Local Data and Indicators | ā¢ Need for access to local data ā¢ Need for capacity in analyses and interpretation of data ā¢ Need for systematic use of population level indicators ā¢ Need for updated population level indicators ā¢ Need for programmatic indicators for use in evaluation | ā¢ Collaborate with local/regional/provincial data holders to explore access and use of data ā¢ Provide recommended population level and programmatic level indicators for injury prevention |
Evidence Summaries | ā¢ Need for evidence summaries for risk factors across injury topics ā¢ Need for evidence summaries on effective interventions ā¢ Need for emerging evidence in injury prevention practice locally, nationally, and internationally | ā¢ Survey existing synthesis work and gaps across injury types and scope a plan to address needs across injury topics ā¢ Bridge the research to practice gap for emerging injury issues | |
Injury Prevention as a Low Priority Area | Competing Priorities with other Health Topics | ā¢ Need for injury topics to be prioritized for data analysis ā¢ Need for local/regional/provincial data and evidence to improve prioritization of injury prevention | ā¢ Provide data visualizations for priority injury topics at the provincial and local level ā¢ Develop resources to support the process of using data and evidence to inform priorities for injury prevention |