Injury Resources

Listed below are links to a variety of provincial, national and international sources for fundamental information about injuries and injury prevention.

These links are provided for initial reference only. They are not intended to be a substitute for any kind of professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Please refer decisions about a medical condition to a health care professional.

Alberta resources

• Alberta Brain Injury Initiative
• Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research
  • Stop Injury website – Take Care: Injuries Are Killing Us
  • Senior's Fall Prevention website – Finding Balance
• Health in Action – Online access to Health Promotion and Injury prevention information in Alberta
• Calgary Chronic Pain Centre
• KIDSAFE Connection – Capital Health Region
• Injury Prevention and Safety – Calgary Health Region

Canadian resources

• British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit
• Safer Healthcare Now! – Canadian Patient Safety Institute
• Health Canada
  • Injury Surveillance On-Line – Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program – Health Canada
  • Safety and Injuries – Health Canada
  • Safe Healthy Environments – Public Health Agency of Canada
• Injury Hospitalization – Ontario Health
  • Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA)
• I.ARE.H – Institute of Agricultural Rural and Environmental Health – University of Saskatchewan
  • The Saskatchewan Brain Injury Association
• SMARTRISK Navigator

International resources

• United States
  • National Center for Injury Prevention and Control – statistics
  • Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
  • Injury Prevention website
  • Injury Control Resource Information Network (ICRIN) –University of Pittsburgh
  • Centre for Injury Control – Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health – Atlanta
  • EPI Center – Epidemiology & Prevention for Injury Control – California
  • Injury Facts for New York State
• Adelaide, Australia – Research Centre for Injury Studies, Flinders University

More information

• View injury related reports and publications.

Additional links to federal and provincial government health ministries and to Canadian societies, foundations and associations concerned with specific health topics are available through Useful Websites.