Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit Monash University Accident Research Centre: Service Standards & Guidelines

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Introduction

The Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit (VISU) is located at the Monash University Accident Research Centre.

Data is analysed and disseminated in order to:

• Identify and describe injury issues and emerging problems;
• Monitor injury trends in the population overall and by gender, age and cause;
• Identify priorities for prevention and potential intervention points and countermeasures to injury;
• Support policy development and the planning and evaluation of preventive programs, projects, strategies and measures and,
• Generate research hypotheses.