These interactive data visualization tools and online portals, including the Canadian Atlas of Child & Youth Injury Prevention, will help you better understand statistics and information on injury.
Resources
Interactive data tools
Use these data visualization tools to look at statistics on injuries.
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Sport and Recreation-related Concussions and Other Traumatic Brain Injuries Among Canada’s Children and Youth
Interactive tools that show statistics about sports and recreation-related concussions and other traumatic brain injuries among Canada’s children and youth aged 5-19 years, based on data from the electronic database of the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (eCHIRPP) for the years 2011 to 2017.
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Global Burden of Disease
The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) houses the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database, which contains information pertaining to mortality, disability, disease burden, life expectancy and risk factors. This data is available free of charge to researchers and policymakers around the world, so that they have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.
IHME has created a number of data visualization tools, which include dynamic graphs charts which allow for comparison and demonstrate how global health profiles have changed over time.
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The Canadian Atlas of Child & Youth Injury Prevention
The Atlas provides child and youth injury information and data to assist practitioners, policy-makers and researchers in making informed decisions that will improve child and youth injury prevention measures in Canada.
The Atlas includes the following:
- Injury data dashboard: a visual overview of trends and patterns
- Injury research insights: a collection of injury prevention research, infographics and resources
- Injury Data Online Tool: a tool to sort, view and query in-depth injury data
Online portals
Access collections of credible information and resources.
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Canadian Best Practices Portal – Public Health Agency of Canada
The Public Health Agency of Canada compiles trusted and credible resources for health professionals and public health decision-makers to plan programs for promoting health and preventing diseases.
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Online library of road safety campaigns – World Health Organization
Governments use mass media campaigns to increase public awareness of road safety laws and persuade the public to abide by them. This library offers a selection of road safety mass media campaigns to encourage and inspire those developing such campaigns.
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Unstructured play toolkit – Canadian Public Health Association
Infographics, promising practices, research summaries, decision making tools and discussion documents related to unstructured play.
Research databases
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Pub
Med PubMed is the U.S. National Library Medicine’s freely available database of medical literature and can be used to search injury research.
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Safety
Lit SafetyLit is an injury research database that provides a weekly e-mail update with summaries of research articles and reports on injury prevention from a variety of disciplines that are relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence and self-harm. SafetyLit service scans more than 3,000 scholarly international journals, conference proceedings, government and agency reports to develop these summaries.