Injury prevention & control

Injury includes damage to health due to such events as transport-related accidents, falls, drowning and near-drowning, suicide and intentional self-harm, homicide and interpersonal violence, fire, burns and scalds, poisoning (from pharmaceuticals and other substances), sports-related accidents, incidents occurring in workplaces and on farms, and from other causes.

This section contains the following:

• National Health Priority Areas background paper

• Resources