Intentional and Unintentional Injuries
Community health Strategy
Injuries afflict everyone and affect everyone in different ways. However, according to the Prevention Institute website, low-income earners and the people of color have a higher affinity to injury. Injuries cause loss of life, healthcare costs and decreased life quality. For these reasons, there is the need to develop strategies for injury prevention. For the purposes of classification, the term injury has been categorized in two different types of injury based on the cause. Unintentional injuries are those that emanate from accidents, falls, drowning, burns, and poisoning. Intentional injuries include rapes, homicides, suicides, assault, and abuse. The two groups of injury have been differentiated in the development of prevention strategies. However, prevention in state identifies similarities between the two sets of injuries. In addition, Cohen et al. (2003) argue that the combination of the two sets of efforts developed for the two sub-groups will enhance the effectiveness of the strategies and help eliminate weaknesses.
In other words, Cohen et al. (2003) argue that the integration of the strategies will save on the resources and combine knowledge from both sub-groups to generate a more effective strategy for dealing with injuries. The best strategy for dealing with an injury is the combination of the resources set aside for the two sub-groups and development of policies and regulations that will bring forth an effective route. This includes combining the effort to identify the norms, resiliency, research, findings, and risks associated with the injuries. Cross applying the ideas would generate a result that caters for the ineffectiveness of either side. This methods will and ideas will include the training of practitioners, research methods and findings, analysis, and application of tools and methodologies for both subgroups.
References:
Cohen, L., Miller, T., Monique, A. S., Emily, G., Gantz, T., & Rebkha, A. (2003). Bridging the gap: Bringing together intentional and unintentional injury prevention efforts to improve health and well being. Retrieved from http://www.eatbettermovemore.org/pdf/bridgingthegap.pdf
Prevention Institute. (2006). Preventing Violence and Reducing Injury. Retrieved from http://www.preventioninstitute.org/focus-areas/preventing-violence-and-reducing-injury.html
