Injuries

The health and human cost of preventable injury is high. In 2019 injuries cost Ontarians $12.2 billion with 8,258 deaths, 101,894 hospitalizations, over 1.4 billion emergency department visits and 22,621 total disabilities.

This report provides an overview of head injury and concussion, broken bone and fracture and cut and puncture injuries among children in Ontario as measured by the 2019 Canadian Health Survey of Children and Youth.

The Lifesaving Society and Public Health Ontario partnered to produce and distribute the Ontario Non-Fatal Drowning Report, 2023.

Childhood fall prevention indicators identified from peer-reviewed and grey literature searchers, then refined among fall-prevention practitioners. Technical resources for indicator use and a newly populated indicator also included.

A summary of evidence on the burden, mechanism and types of injuries most commonly reported in peer-reviewed literature.

Current action on concussions in Canada mostly refers to concussion awareness, identification, post-concussion management and guidelines. This document identifies a gap for public health organizations to focus on concussion prevention.