Programs

• Child Passenger Safety
• Family Violence Prevention
• Fire-Related Injury Prevention
• Fall Prevention — Workout To Go! Alaska
• Helmet Safety
• Poison Prevention
• Reflectors — Be Safe, Be Seen
• Water Safety — Kids Don't Float

Alaska Injury Data

• Fatal Injuries in Alaska 2005-2009
• Non-Fatal Hospitalized Injuries in Alaska 2005-2009

Other Sources for Alaska Injury Data

• Bureau of Vital Statistics - Data
• Emergency Programs: Preparedness, EMS and Trauma
• Alaska Center for Health Data and Statistics

Injury Prevention

About

Injury is the third leading cause of death for Alaskans overall and the leading cause of death from age one through 44. The Injury Prevention Program has adopted the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors' Association (STIPDA) model for a state injury prevention program. This model consists of five core components.

• Data collection and analysis: Alaska's injury data includes all injury deaths and hospital admissions. All injury prevention efforts begin by looking at the numbers -- what injuries are occurring, when, where, how, why, and to whom.
• Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation: Effective injury prevention involves choosing programs with proven effectiveness and evaluating what you've done. Injury prevention programs fall under the three intervention methods: environment; enforcement; and, education. Injury prevention programs usually employ a combination of these methods to maximize public acceptance and successful implementation. Funding for Alaska's injury prevention programs are almost exclusively through federal grants that target injury prevention for Alaska youth.
• Coordination and Collaboration: Partnerships with other key agencies avoid duplicity and inconsistency. Primary partners include the Highway Safety Office; the Alaska Injury Prevention Center; the Boating Safety Office; Alaska Safe Kids Coalitions and Chapters; the Alaska Safe Communities coalitions; the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association; the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Alaska Field Office; State Fire Marshal's Office; Denali Safety Council; and, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Native Health Corporation Injury Prevention Programs.
• Technical Support and Training: Maintaining a trained and experienced injury prevention workforce is key to developing and implementing effective programs. This workforce begins with the injury prevention specialists and extends to all healthcare providers in the state who seek to improve the health and life expectancy of their clients.
• Public Policy: Injury prevention specialists can influence public policy by providing scientific information to policy makers and constituents who wish to be involved in the policy-making process. This information may include risk factor data for specific target groups, examples of policy interventions that have been shown to reduce the risk of injury, or even model legislation.