Child Injury Prevention
Welcome to the child injury prevention website.
Injury is a leading cause of death and disability in young children in Australia and Queensland. In Queensland the rate of child injury is higher than the national average.
Injuries in children (such as from burns and scalds, poisonings, falls and near drowning) can have many lasting effects including disability and disfigurement and can impair a child's development and future wellbeing. Most child injuries occur at home or in the yard. However child injury is not a normal or inevitable part of growing up, with most child injuries being predictable and preventable.
The Child Injury Prevention Project (ChIPP)
Queensland Health and the Department of Emergency Services have worked together since 2001 to jointly develop, implement and evaluate a collaborative response to unintentional child injury called the Child Injury Prevention Project (ChIPP). This comprehensive, five year project saw the development of a multi-strategic and evidence based approach to injury prevention for children aged 0-4 years in the two Queensland towns of Mount Isa and Mackay. ChIPP was designed to trial strategies that can really help in actually reducing injuries to local children. This website will eventually contain all the various practical and theoretical lessons learnt from this important Project.
Who would find value in this website?
This website has been built to provide all those with an interest in child injury prevention and safety promotion (including health care professionals, government, non-government organisations and other key stakeholders) with a hands-on, good practice tool-kit to guide the "how" of planning, implementing and evaluating a comprehensive and sustainable child injury prevention strategy for their local community.
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