Public health approaches to control injuries

maryam baradaran binazir¹

1) Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Management and Safety Promotion Research Institute, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Publication : Safe 2019 - 24th International Conference on Safe Community(safe2019.com)
Abstract :
Introduction: injuries are a focus of public health practice because they pose a serious health threat and are in most situations preventable. despite successes in many areas of injury prevention, the potential of preventing traumatic injuries has not been realized. there remains much to be done. So ,the aim of this study was to investigate different public health approaches to injury control by article review. Method: In the present review article, reputable internet databases were investigated. Studies that considered models of public health in injuries control were included in this review. The following databases were accessed for the period from beginning to 2018 for English publications: Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus and Science Direct .The terms public health models and injury were used. Articles had to meet the following inclusion criteria: focus on public health models and focus on injuries. Results: From the literature review , it is clear that there are several types of models that are utilized to control and prevention of injuries. we found two models in this area. First one, the causal model for traumatic injuries which is easily adopted from the traditional epidemiologic causal model. the second one is the public health model ,which advocate a cycle of surveillance, risk factor identification, and intervention implementation and evaluation. Conclusion :the public health model and the causal model for traumatic injuries are sustainable framework to use in injury control and prevention.
Keywords : injury public health model