The injury iceberg: an ecological approach to planning sustainable community safety interventions

Hanson, Dale; Hanson, Jan E.; Vardon, Paul; McFarlane, Kathryn; Lloyd, Jacqueline J.; Müller, Reinhold; Dürrheim, David N

doi:10.1071/he05005

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“…Contrastingly, the capacity building paradigm proposes that sustainable social systems depend on the internal capacity of the system to remain productive. Many authors question whether this is realistic, given that administrative control over the necessary resources is often retained by agencies external to the target community (Hanson et al, 2005;La Fond, 1995;Nilsen et al, 2005;Olsen, 1998;Stefanini & Ruck, 1992;Swerissen & Crisp, 2004).…”

Section: Sustainable Injury Control and Safety Promotionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…McMurray (1999) suggests, 'A community can be viewed as an ecosystem, with resources, opportunities and threats to health and healthy lifestyles'. In this paradigm, a community must be understood in the context of its environment (Hanson et al, 2005;McMurray, 1999). The sustainability of the coalition is not only determined by its internal attributes, but also by its ability to productively interact with its external environment (Brinkerhoff & Goldsmith, 1992;Brush, 1975;Nilsen et al, 2005;Sciubba, 1995;von Bertalanffy, 1950).…”

Section: Sustainable Injury Control and Safety Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Brinkerhoff and Goldsmith (1992) note that sustainability 'Is not an end state but an ongoing input-output process'. It is an ecological concept (Hanson et al, 2005) concerning the flux of resources through a system (Brush, 1975;Sciubba, 1995;von Bertalanffy, 1950). Health promotion practitioners have adopted this concept.…”

Section: Sustainable Injury Control and Safety Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The MWSC attempted to catalyse structural, social and political change that empowered the community and ultimately, individuals within the community, to change their environment and behaviours to reduce the risk of injury (Hanson et al, 2005). It was made up of six working groups, supported and coordinated by a Network Support Group (NSG) (Figure 1).…”

Section: Mackay Whitsunday Safe Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Measuring the sustainability of a community safety promotion network: working from the inside out

Hanson

McFarlane

Vardon

et al. 2012

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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Mackay Whitsunday Safe Communities (MWSC) was developed using a capacity building model that consciously attempted to design sustainability into the network. Our aim was to quantify the flow of resources used by MWSC to implement and sustain its injury control activities. Resource exchange among network members was quantified and analysed using social network analysis. In 2004, MWSC accessed an estimated 6.5 full-time staff equivalents and $0.9 million. However, these resources were largely accessed externally. The linking relationships that connected MWSC to its external support network, more than half of which were maintained by six broker network facilitators, were the critical social asset used to access resources and sustain network productivity. The sustainability of this network and arguably similar safety promotion networks is vulnerable to the changing priorities of external sponsoring agents and highly dependent on its leaders who facilitated access to the resources it required to remain productive.

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Section: Sustainable Injury Control and Safety Promotionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Sustainable Injury Control and Safety Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sustainable Injury Control and Safety Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mackay Whitsunday Safe Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Measuring the sustainability of a community safety promotion network: working from the inside out

Hanson

McFarlane

Vardon

et al. 2012

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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“…At present, it has been found that up to 50% of community initiatives on safety have not been sustained (Hanson et al 2005). The aim of this study was to develop a framework enabling verification of the quality of community-based safety-promotion programmes in the global context.…”

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Quality indicators for implementation of safety promotion: Towards valid and reliable global certification of local programmes

Timpka

Nordqvist

Festin

et al. 2012

Global Public Health

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The theoretical underpinnings of safety promotion have not yet been integrated with implementation practice to ascertain between-community programme quality. This study sets out to develop a framework for verifying of the quality of community-based safety-promotion programmes in the global context. We analysed the certification indicators deployed in the international Safe Community movement in light of systems theory. Data were collected from focus group interviews with representatives from 10 certified Swedish communities and then analysed by qualitative methods. The community representatives were found to have used the present indicators mainly for marketing the safety-promotion concept to stakeholders rather than as benchmarks for safety practice. When appraised in regard to systems theory, it was found that the indicators did not cover important aspects of health-services implementation. Attainment of outcomes at the population level was not included. Consequently, that information about programme effects in high-risk groups and in risk environments could be neglected. We conclude that programme processes and outcomes at both organisational and population levels must be assessed when the quality of safety-promotion programmes is being certified. A revised set of indicators for certification of safety-promotion programmes fulfilling these criteria is presented.

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Linked data systems for injury surveillance and targeted prevention planning: Identifying geographical differences in injury in Western Australia, 2009‐2012

Lyle

Hendrie

Miller

et al. 2018

Health Prom J of Aust

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Injury prevention priority areas had consistent trends both geographically and over time. Finer scale analysis can provide public health policy makers with more robust information to plan, evaluate and support a range of injury prevention programs. SO WHAT?: The use of linked data systems and spatial analysis can assist health promotion decision-makers and practitioners by demonstrating area-based differences in injury prevention allowing effective targeting of limited resources to populations at the highest risk of injury.

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The injury iceberg: an ecological approach to planning sustainable community safety interventions

Abstract: To reduce a community's risk of injury and sustain this lowered risk, the community 'ecological system' must have access to the resources necessary to maintain the desired outcome and the ability to mobilise these resources.

Cited by 58 publications

References 24 publications

Measuring the sustainability of a community safety promotion network: working from the inside out

Measuring the sustainability of a community safety promotion network: working from the inside out

Quality indicators for implementation of safety promotion: Towards valid and reliable global certification of local programmes

Linked data systems for injury surveillance and targeted prevention planning: Identifying geographical differences in injury in Western Australia, 2009‐2012

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