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Table 3 Needs and areas of potential support for injury prevention practice as expressed by participants, by identified theme

From: How can we support best practice? A situational assessment of injury prevention practice in public health

Theme

Sub-theme

Expressed Needs

Areas of Potential Support

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