Online Courses Handbook 2003

7924 (v.6) Injury Control 288

Area:	School of Public Health
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Rationale for a public health approach to injury prevention. Scientific principles of injury causation magnitude and cost of the injury problem, prevention models. Educational/behavioural, engineering and technological and legislative/regulatory strategies. Effective design and implementation of prevention programmes. Evaluating programmes. Data sources. Use of data. Limitations of data. Investigation of common types of injury. Practice in the application of principles of prevention. Case studies in injury control.