An introduction to community based injury prevention

This chapter from the book, Injury Research and Prevention: a text gives an overview of the community based injury prevention model, and its history in the Australian context. The community intervention model is concerned with the way in which interventions are organised and the context in which change targeted at injury reduction takes place. The strategies for environmental change, awareness raising, education and behaviour change described in the literature on injury control are all necessary components of community based interventions.