Injury prevention: achieving population-level change

Wilkins, Natalie; McClure, Roderick John; Mack, Karin A.

doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042355

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“…An effective approach requires using a public health strategy for planning, implementing, and evaluating injury prevention initiatives. [4][5][6][7]…”

Section: The Role Of Trauma Centers In Reducing the Burden Of Injurymentioning

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Consensus-based Standards and Indicators to strengthen trauma center injury and violence prevention programs

Adams

Kuhls

Stephens-Stidham

et al. 2021

Trauma Surg Acute Care Open

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For decades, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACSCOT) has published Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient, which outlines specific criteria necessary to be verified by the college as a trauma center, including having an organized and effective approach to prevention of trauma. However, the document provides little public health-specific guidance to assist trauma centers with developing these approaches. An advisory panel was convened in 2017 with representatives from national trauma and public health organizations with the purpose of identifying strategies to support trauma centers in the development of a public health approach to injury and violence prevention and to better integrate these efforts with those of local and state public health departments. This panel developed the Standards and Indicators for Model Level I and II Trauma Center Injury and Violence Prevention Programs. The document outlines five, consensus-based core components of a model injury and violence prevention program: (1) leadership, (2) resources, (3) data, (4) effective interventions, and (5) partnerships. We think this document provides the missing public health guidance and is an essential resource to trauma centers for effectively addressing injury and violence in our communities. We recommend the Standards and Indicators be referenced in the injury prevention chapter of the upcoming revision of ACSCOT’s Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient as guidance for the development, implementation and evaluation of injury prevention programs and be used as a framework for program presentation during ACSCOT verification visits.

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“…An effective approach requires using a public health strategy for planning, implementing, and evaluating injury prevention initiatives. [4][5][6][7]…”

Section: The Role Of Trauma Centers In Reducing the Burden Of Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Consensus-based Standards and Indicators to strengthen trauma center injury and violence prevention programs

Adams

Kuhls

Stephens-Stidham

et al. 2021

Trauma Surg Acute Care Open

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“…Recognizing that most health issues are continuously adapting, systems thinking equips the field of public health to identify “high leverage” solutions that improve multiple health outcomes at once, to better understand and address intractable issues such as health disparities (Diez Roux, 2011), and to anticipate potential unintended consequences of public health actions (Meadows, 2008; Riley et al., 2017). Injury and violence prevention is an area of public health that faces many of these adaptive challenges (McClure et al, 2015; Wilkins et al, 2018)—for example, understanding and addressing the complex connections between prescription opioid misuse/illicit opioid use, suicide, and adverse childhood experiences (Merrick et al, 2020; Ports et al., 2017; Ranade et al, 2020) and the shared root causes that are linked to multiple forms of violence (Wilkins et al, 2014).…”

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Developing indicators to evaluate systems thinking and application in state injury and violence prevention programs

Wilkins

Kossover-Smith

Hogan

et al. 2021

New Drctns Evaluation

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Systems thinking principles are increasingly recognized as an important part of public health research and practice. However, the extent to which systems thinking is being integrated into public health practice, and its impact on health outcomes, is largely unknown. This is in part due to the paucity of options for measuring systems thinking at the organizational level and in the context of public health practice. Building on existing frameworks of public health competencies, infrastructure, and systems thinking principles, this article proposes a conceptual model and corresponding indicators for measuring organizational systems thinking and application within state public health departments. We describe our process for developing this model and indicators, drawing from both research and practice‐based evidence on systems thinking, and offer a set of indicators for measuring organizational‐level systems thinking in the context of public health practice.

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“…Finally, we introduce a systems science approach and associated tools that leverage core public health and injury prevention frameworks, while overcoming some important shortcomings. Specifically, in response to the perceived need to better integrate systems methods in injury prevention research and practice,1–9 we provide both an accessible overview of how systems science approaches can augment, and overcome some important limitations of, established injury prevention frameworks and examples of common systems science tools that can be readily applied to persistent road traffic injury problems.…”

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Integrating complex systems science into road safety research and practice, part 1: review of formative concepts

et al. 2019

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Many of our most persistent public health problems are complex problems. They arise from a web of factors that interact and change over time and may exhibit resistance to intervention efforts. The domain of systems science provides several tools to help injury prevention researchers and practitioners examine deep, complex and persistent problems and identify opportunities to intervene. Using the increase in pedestrian death rates as an example, we provide (1) an accessible overview of how complex systems science approaches can augment established injury prevention frameworks and (2) a straightforward example of how specific systems science tools can deepen understanding, with a goal of ultimately informing action.

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Injury prevention: achieving population-level change

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Consensus-based Standards and Indicators to strengthen trauma center injury and violence prevention programs

Consensus-based Standards and Indicators to strengthen trauma center injury and violence prevention programs

Developing indicators to evaluate systems thinking and application in state injury and violence prevention programs

Integrating complex systems science into road safety research and practice, part 1: review of formative concepts

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