Injury and violence
TEACH-VIP: training, educating, and advancing collaboration in health on violence and injury prevention
Training curriculum on injury prevention and control for public health workers
Authors:
; WHO
Publisher:
Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention, WHO, 2005
This document, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), outlines WHO’s modular training curriculum on injury prevention and control, TEACH-VIP. This course aims to identify the basic principles of injury prevention, control and safety promotion; differentiate basic methods for studying injury problems in the community; and diagnose problems from a multidisciplinary perspective. Participants will be shown how to design, implement and evaluate injury prevention and safety promotion interventions; compare effective injury prevention and control interventions; identify relevant sources of information and critically appraise them; advocate for injury prevention in communities; and practice injury prevention control and safety promotion based on universally accepted ethical principles.
The main goal of TEACH-VIP is to train students, professionals and practitioners in the field of public health to better apply key injury prevention and control principles, to contribute to the development of preventive programmes and policies, design effective surveillance systems, evaluate intervention programmes and policies, and collect and assess injury data. While the curriculum has been developed primarily for public health, it is also expected that it can be used for allied medical and nursing students, injury prevention and response practitioners, health professionals, staff within government agencies and other relevant and interested parties. [adapted from authors]
