CHIRPP

A serious child health problem

Over the past decade in Canada, child injury has emerged as a serious public health concern. It isn't a new problem, yet it is just beginning to be addressed on a level that reflects its true scope. Death rates give us a glimpse of the human cost of the most extreme injuries: each year injuries kill more Canadian children and youth over the age of one than all other causes combined. For every injury-related death, there are 45 hospital admissions and an estimated 1,300 visits to emergency rooms across the country. Alongside these figures is the estimation that more than 90% of these injuries are predictable and preventable.

Until recently, very little was known about the circumstances surrounding injuries to children. Death and hospitalization rates, while valuable, can't answer many of the questions injury prevention workers have been asking. What was the child doing when the injury happened? What went wrong? Where did the injury happen? The Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP) was set up in 1990 to provide answers to these questions.

[CHIRPP - A Unique Source of Child Injury Information]

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