Section: Module 3: Risk Factors and Causes of Injury | Injury prevention | NextGenU.org

  • By the end of this Module, you should understand the causes and risk factors associated with injury, including biomechanical factors, and especially as relevant to your own setting.

    The Module is designed to explore:

    The various risk factors associated with a specific cause of injury in different settings.

    How identifying the risk factors may help in planning potential preventive interventions, differentiating between modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors, distal and proximal factors, high-risk groups, and how influencing distal factors through the links identified in 1 can influence proximal factors.

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      Page 24 of the core resource provided shows Haddon’s matrix for factors contributing to injury and consequences of injury - as applied to road traffic crashes (Human, Vehicle/Equipment, Environment factors at the pre-crash, crash and post-crash phases). Reflect on this and on how it might apply to risk factors for other types of injury.