The BC Injury Prevention Committee (BCIPC), the BC Injury Prevention Alliance (BCIPA), and the BC Falls and Injury Prevention Community of Practice (CoP) function to advance public policy on injury prevention.
The three provincial priorities are:
Almost all these injuries and their resulting costs, could have been prevented. We must take action to create a different story; a story of a province free from serious injury.
The tables and figure below explore falls, transport incidents, and suicide/self-harm by presenting data for specific types of incidents within these three causes.
Many of the data figures below include filters you can use to customize the display. Use the filter drop-down menus at the top of the figure to select an age group, sex, cause, cost type, or measure (e.g., cases or rates). When a filter is selected, the title and contents of the data figure will change automatically.
Please note that case counts fewer than 5 are not identified in the tables or charts. Figures are best viewed in full screen.
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