
Grass Roots Injury Prevention
A guide for field workers
Diana Samarakkody, Elizabeth Davis, Rod McClure
Published: 2013
Pages: 200
eBook: 9781780448022
Paperback: 9781853398032
Hardback: 9781853398025
The GRIP Guide contains eight modules. The first module gives an overview of the principles of injury prevention and safety promotion. Modules two through six describe how to address the five categories / types of injuries (burns, falls, drowning, transport injuries, poisoning). Module seven provides a generic approach that covers other unintentional injuries and module eight deals with the response to intentional injuries (violence).
This guide takes the form of a series of exercises that reader can use when working with community members to promote community participation and intersectoral collaboration as a means of achieving a safe environment.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Making The GRIP Guide work for you
Adapting the exercises to local settings
How to form a group
Training techniques used in The GRIP Guide
Learning materials
The learning environment
Ethical issues
Chapter 2 Grasping the problem
Risk factor identification
Intervention development and implementation
Progress monitoring
Module 1: Burns
Grasping the problem
Risk factor identification
Intervention development and implementation
Progress monitoring
Module 2: Falls
Grasping the problem
Risk factor identification
Intervention development and implementation
Progress monitoring
Module 3: Drowning
Grasping the problem
Risk factor identification
Intervention development and implementation
Progress monitoring
Module 4: Transport injuries
Grasping the problem
Risk factor identification
Intervention development and implementation
Progress monitoring
Module 5: Poisoning
Grasping the problem
Risk factor identification
Intervention development and implementation
Progress monitoring
Module 6: Violence
Grasping the problem
Risk factor identification
Intervention development and implementation
Progress monitoring
Module 7: Other injuries
Grasping the problem
Risk factor identification
Intervention development and implementation
Progress monitoring
Concluding words
Bibliography
Diana Samarakkody
Diana Samarakkody is with the National Program Manager for Injury Prevention & Control, Non Communicable Disease Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka.
Elizabeth Davis
Elizabeth Davis is a Research Officer with Injury Prevention and Control (Australia) Ltd. and has more than 20 years’ experience in health promotion, health policy, and programme evaluation.
Rod McClure
Professor Rod McClure is Director of the Monash Injury Research Institute