Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Environmental Health Issues--Magnitude of the Problem and Prevention
• Population-based Initiatives to Reduce the Burden of Environmental Health Issues
• Occupational Health Issues--Magnitude of the Problem and Prevention
• Population-based Initiatives to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Health Issues
• Unintended Injuries and Violence—Magnitude of the Problem and Prevention
• Population-based Initiatives to Reduce the Burden of Unintended Injuries and Violence

NRSG 780 - Health Promotion and Population Health

Module 12: Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Unintended Injuries and Violence

Population-based Initiatives to Reduce the Burden of Unintended Injuries and Violence

National

CDC’s Injury Center is the U.S. focal point for the public health approach to preventing violence and injuries and their consequences by bridging science and implementation. Its current focus areas include:

• Motor vehicle injury
• Prescription drug overdose
• Child abuse and neglect
• Older adult falls
• Sexual violence
• Youth sports concussion

CDC Injury Center Research Priorities

Unintentional Injury Prevention

• Prescription drug overdose
• Falls among older adults
• Motor vehicle injury
• Traumatic brain injury

Violence Prevention

• Cross cutting violence prevention
• Child abuse and neglect
• Youth violence
• Intimate partner violence
• Sexual violence
• Self-directed violence

Click here to learn more about the research priorities.

Statewide

The Maryland Department of Health Bureau of Environmental Health houses the Program for Injury Prevention focuses on:

Childhood Programs and Services:

• Kids in Safety Seats
• Suicide Prevention

Adolescent Programs and Services:

• Suicide Prevention
• Domestic Violence & HIV
• Sexual Violence

Adult Programs and Services:

• Falls Prevention
• Domestic Violence & HIV
• Sexual Violence

For more information on the Injury Prevention Program click https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/oehfp/injury/Pages/Injury%20and%20Violence%20Prevention.aspx

The Maryland Department of Health has also developed a Resource Guide for decisionmakers to address violence and injury prevention.

It identifies how unintentional injuries and violence affect Marylanders and how the state is addressing the problem in the following areas:

• Alcohol and Injury
• All-terrain Vehicle Safety
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Distracted Driving
• Falls among Older Adults
• Home Fires
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Motorcycles
• Poisoning
• Teen Driver Safety
• Trauma and trauma systems

Source: https://phpa.health.maryland.gov/oehfp/Injury/Documents/EIP-RESOURCE/MarylandResourceGuide2016LowRes.pdf

 

The Partnership for a Safer Maryland advocates for injury and violence prevention and promotes education and surveillance in Maryland through statewide partnerships. It was created in 2005 when the Maryland Department of Health received CDC funding to establish a sustainable violence prevention program and has continued to be supported by CDC funding. The Partnership is open to all and includes individuals representing federal, state, and local agencies, universities and research institutions, injury care providers, and private, professional, and non-profit organizations. It assisted with developing the strategic plan for the future of injury and violence prevention in Maryland that aims to raise injury and violence prevention in the state to a level that is commensurate with the tremendous toll that injuries cause. The plan emphasizes:

• Building a solid infrastructure for injury prevention
• Collecting and analyzing state data
• Designing, implementing and evaluating interventions
• Providing technical assistance and support
• Affecting public policy
• Providing a structure for addressing injury topics through a series of three year risk factor reduction campaigns

Source: https://www.safermaryland.org/