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Injury or Accident?
Causes of Injury
Axioms
Strategies
100
This event is not predictable; unavoidable
Accident
100
What is another term used to describe injury?
Trauma
100
What are the two determinants of injury?
Human and environment
100
This type of strategy decreases the susceptibility of injury to host by teaching or motivating behavioral change.
Educational and behavioral change
200
This event has a predictable medical outcome
Injury
200
This cause includes lack of oxygen and lack of heat
Absence of essentials
200
Injury preventing interactions can be modified through by changing these three factors
behavior, products and environment
200
This type of strategy has its greatest effect when both aspects make the physical and sociocultural environment safer.
Legislation and enforcement
300
This event is the leading cause of death for individuals under the age of 35.
Injury
300
This is caused resulting from falls, motor vehicle crashes, firearms, violence and sports play, fires, poisons, radiations
Acute exposure to energy
300
This type of change has the potential to protect greatest number of people
environmental
300
An example of this type of strategy is reflective clothing, seatbelts in cars with airbags, soft play ground surfaces, hip pads for the elderly.
Engineering and technology