INJURY COURSE TRAINING MATERIALS AVAILABLE

The World Health Organization, Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention (VIP) has released TEACH-VIP. It is a comprehensive injury prevention and control curriculum which has been developed through the efforts of WHO and a network of global injury prevention experts. The course material is designed to be a flexible and modular classroom instruction curriculum, with PowerPoint slide presentations and supporting lecture notes which address a wide variety of topics relevant to injury prevention and control. The curriculum consists of "core" and "advanced" lessons. The core lessons consist of a broad overview of the fundamentals of injury prevention. The advanced course covers the topics of the core course in greater detail, with more emphasis on the lessons that cover specialized context areas in injury prevention and control. Copies of the Users’ Manual, that includes a CD-ROM containing slides and handouts, may be obtained by writing the World Health Organization, Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 27 Geneva, Switzerland.

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