Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

In this episode, Season 1 host, Shari Thompson-Ricci is joined by colleague Brandy Tanenbaum, a certified risk manager who works as a Program Coordinator in the Centre for Injury Prevention at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

They discuss what injury prevention is, its history, the social determinants of injury, and its inequalities in injury. They will also address “wicked problems”, its layers and the injury disparities they lead to.

Interesting Facts:

  • Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death for Canadians under the age of 45 years, and a leading cause of hospitalization and death for all ages.
  • Injuries result in:
    • 15,866 deaths
    • 231,596 hospitalizations
    • Nearly 3.5 million emergency room visits
    • More than 60,000 people either partially or permanently disabled
    • $15.9 billion in direct health care costs
    • $26.8 billion in total economic costs

Call to action:
“If you are working in the field of injury prevention, we can no longer go forward without the lens of equity on, in anything that we do. Everything we do should be done with equity in mind.” – Brandy TanenbaumResources mentioned in this episode (hyperlinked):

  • Injury Prevention, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
  • ACIP-Social Determinates of Injury (pdf)
  • Wicked Problems
  • Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen, by Dan Heath
  • Poem: The Ambulance Down in the Valley, by Joseph Malins(1896)
  • Parachute

Guest:Brandy TanenbaumProgram Coordinator, Centre for Injury Prevention
Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
@brantanHost & Executive Producer:Shari Thompson-RicciP.A.R.T.Y. Program Coordinator, Centre for Injury Prevention
Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
@itsShariTR

Produced By:
Centre for Injury Prevention
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Music:

  • Klimenko Music at Premium Beats
  • Alexander Blu Music at Orangefreesounds.com

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