Grass Roots Injury Prevention: A Guide for Field Workers - Softcover

Samarakkody, Diana; Davis, Elizabeth; Mcclure, Rod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853398039 ISBN 13: 9781853398032

Verlag: Practical Action Publishing, 2013

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Books about injury prevention tend to explain only the principles and leave it to the practitioner to apply them in the course of their everyday interactions. Thus there is a large gap, between “what works in principle” and “how to make it work in practice”. The purpose of this book is to translate the principles of injury prevention to the specific circumstances that community workers face.

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Diana Samarakkody is with the National Program Manager for Injury Prevention & Control, Non Communicable Disease Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka.

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.

Professor Rod McClure is Director of the Monash Injury Research Institute

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Grass Roots Injury Prevention

A Guide for Field Workers

By Diana Samarakkody, Elizabeth Davis, Rod McClure

Practical Action Publishing Ltd

Copyright © 2013 Practical Action Publishing
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-85339-803-2

Contents

Authors and contributors, vii, 
Preface, ix, 
Acknowledgements, x, 
Part I, 1, 
1 Introduction to The GRIP Guide, 3, 
2 Injury prevention and safety promotion, 17, 
Part II, 43, 
Module 1: Burns, 45, 
Module 2: Falls, 69, 
Module 3: Drowning, 87, 
Module 4: Transport injuries, 101, 
Module 5: Poisoning, 123, 
Module 6: Violence, 141, 
Module 7: Other injuries, 61, 
3 Pulling it all together, 173, 
Bibliography, 175, 

CHAPTER 1

Introduction to The GRIP Guide

Injuries are a leading cause of death and disability for all age groups, among all people, in all parts of the world. Yet injuries are one of the most preventable health conditions we face. Grass Roots Injury Prevention: A Guide for Field Workers has been written for field workers who want to help make their communities safer. The GRIP Guide translates the principles of injury prevention into everyday practice. It helps you understand what causes injuries and what can be done to prevent them.

Keywords: injury prevention, guide, manual, field workers

Who it will help

If you are working to prevent injuries and promote safety at individual, family, and village levels in lower- and middle-income countries, The GRIP Guide is for you!

Community health workers are looking for simple, effective ways to prevent injuries and promote safety. This is a practical manual to help you make a difference, without the need to wade through the theory of individual, social, and environmental change that underpins injury prevention and safety promotion.

How to use it

The GRIP Guide is designed to help translate the principles of injury prevention into everyday practice. It will help readers understand what causes injuries and what can be done to prevent them. It takes into account the human, social, environmental, and financial challenges in many communities. The book focuses on preventing the causes of injury (primary prevention).

The GRIP Guide provides a series of approaches community health workers can use to help ordinary people create safer homes, villages and communities. The explanation of these approaches is based on the experiences of a fictional field worker named Dula and a group of community members in the fictional village of Dingly. The exercises provide community health workers with tools they can use to bring community leaders and members together to identify the main causes of injury and propose lasting solutions that will work in their community.

Readers can select the modules (sections) that reflect the types of injuries in their communities. Each module provides the information that community members and leaders need to help them take action.

The GRIP Guide does not provide a blueprint for you to simply copy. Instead, it provides a process to help you guide the community in developing the answers for themselves. The GRIP Guide helps you 'learn by doing', not 'do by copying'.

We recommend you read the whole manual carefully to enable you to understand the purpose, content, and approach taken. To help others to learn and to act in their own communities, you must be familiar with the key information provided in each exercise.

The guide will help you help others – such as community members and leaders or key decision-makers in schools, workplaces, and government departments – to understand the major causes of injuries, and what they can do to build and maintain safe places for people to live, work, and play.

At the end of each exercise, the guide encourages you to think of other possibilities and alternative ways to address the problem under discussion.

How it is structured

The GRIP Guide contains seven modules following the introductory chapters.

Chapter 2 gives an overview of the principles of injury prevention and safety promotion. Modules 1 to 5 describe how to address the five main types of unintentional injuries (burns, falls, drowning, transport injuries, poisoning). Module 6 describes an approach to preventing intentional injuries (violence). Module 7 provides a generic approach to reducing the risk of other unintentional injuries.

These modules can be used flexibly; you do not need to follow the sequence from 1 through to 7. The authors encourage you to read all modules as each provides information of value to you in working toward lasting change. However, you can choose to focus on the module about the injury of most concern to your community. The GRIP Guide is there to support you and your community to learn through doing.

Each module is designed to help build confidence and skills in:

• Grasping the problem;

• Risk factor identification;

• Intervention development and implementation;

• Progress monitoring.

Making The GRIP Guide work for you

To improve the local relevance of the exercises provided, you may wish to use local names and local stories. Carefully consider any cultural and religious issues that are important to your community when adapting the exercises. You also need to think about the financial, physical, or geographic restrictions that may make an exercise difficult in your community.

One person cannot have all the knowledge, skills and authority to change many of the factors that cause injury. We recommend you seek the assistance and support of local officials and community members each step of the way, from gathering information about the problem through to putting lasting solutions in place.

How to form a group

To get the most out of The GRIP Guide, you will need to work with a wide range of people. Bringing them together in a group will enable you to build on their experience and skills. Forming a group involves getting together people who share an interest in an area (such as injury prevention) or who have responsibility for the things found to be causing injuries, and who are prepared to work with others to achieve the community's goals.

Begin by identifying the most senior members of the community, such as elders, the chief priest, political leaders, business owners, aid organization representatives, police, and medical and nursing professions in the village. Arrange to visit each of these people to talk about the problem of injury in your community. Ask them to support your plan to establish a group to work on ways to reduce injuries in the community. Present them with a summary of the problem of injury in your community and some of the ways the community could be made safer. Explain how improved safety would be good for the community, the government, and businesses.

When arranging meetings find a time when most people will be available, considering work, family and community commitments, and then provide everyone with details of where and when the first meeting will be held. At that first meeting, you can help those present discuss how the group will function in the future.

Learning exercises

Group exercises and various activities are used to encourage community members and leaders to take part. The following pages describe these...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Practical Action Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1853398039
• ISBN 13: 9781853398032
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178
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