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Key injury websites

• Injury prevention resources and strategies
• Injury research
• Injury statistics

Injury prevention for specific populations

• Asian people
• Children
• Māori
• Older people
• Pacific people
• Young people

Injury topic or risk factor

• Alcohol and other drugs
• Brain injury prevention
• Burn, scald, electrical injury prevention
• Community injury prevention
• Crime prevention
• Disaster preparedness and recovery
• Family violence prevention
• Mental health
• Road safety
• Sport and recreation safety
• Suicide prevention
• Water safety
• Workplace safety

Government and other relevant websites

• Government departments and agencies
• Other organisations

Key injury websites

Injury prevention resources and strategies 

• ACC - Preventing Injuries
• ACC - Safety begins at Home
• Department of Labour - Health and Safety
• Drowning Prevention Strategy ACC
• Falls Prevention Strategy ACC
• Family Violence Ministry of Health
• Injury Prevention Network of Aotearoa New Zealand (IPNANZ)
• Injury Prevention Research Unit (IPRU), University of Otago
• Injury NZ e-Directory (INZED) Injury Prevention Information Centre
• IPLit - injury literature database  Injury Prevention Information Centre
• New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse
• New Zealand Fire Service
• New Zealand Injury Prevention Programme Database NZIPS
• New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy (NZIPS)
• New Zealand National Poisons Centre
• New Zealand Safety Council
• New Zealand Transport Agency (Land Transport NZ & Transit NZ merged August 2008)
• Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand
• Safekids New Zealand
• Safer Communities Action Plan to Reduce Community Violence and Sexual Violence Assault prevention strategy, Ministry of Justice
• Safer Journeys NZ Road Safety Strategy to 2020
• Suicide Prevention in New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy website (Ministry of Health)
• Workplace Health and Safety Strategy

Injury research

• Families Commission
• Health & Rehabilitation Research Institute, AUT University
• Health Services Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington
• Injury Prevention Research Unit (IPRU), University of Otago
• Ministry of Transport Road safety research and road traffic crash statistics
• National Institute for Public Health and Mental Health Research, AUT University
• New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse
• New Zealand Transport Agency (Land Transport NZ & Transit NZ merged August 2008)
• School of Population Health, The University of Auckland
• SHORE (The Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation), Massey University
• Te Ropu Whariki: the Whariki Research Group, Massey University
• Traffic and Road Safety Research (TARS) Group, The University of Waikato
• Transport Accident Investigation Commission investigates significant aviation, rail and marine accidents and incidents, to determine the circumstances and causes, with a view to avoiding similar circumstances in the future

Injury statistics

• ACC Statistics
• Chemical Injury Surveillance System Public Health Surveillance, ESR
• Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee
• Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
• Coronial Data Collection (How to access this data)
• DrownBase Water Safety New Zealand
• Energy Safety (Ministry of Economic Development)
• Family Violence Death Review Committee
• Injury Information Portal Statistics New Zealand
• Injury Prevention Research Unit (IPRU), University of Otago
• Injury Statistics - Work-Related Claims Statistics New Zealand
• Maritime New Zealand
• Ministry of Health Data and Statistics (access to Ministry of Health statistics including data formely managed by NZHIS and Public Health Intelligence)
• Ministry of Transport Road safety research and road traffic crash statistics
• National Incident Database Outdoor Activities
• National Injury Query System based on NZHIS data, managed by IPRU
• New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse collates available statistics from various sources
• New Zealand Fire Service
• New Zealand Recorded Crime Tables Crime Statistics
• New Zealand Transport Agency Crash Analysis, Road Safety Data, Road Safety Issues,  Road Safety: Crashes and Casualties
• Occupational Health and Safety Research Network of New Zealand (OHNSNetNZ) - includes NOHSAC reports and research database
• Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand
• Safekids New Zealand
• Suicide Prevention in New Zealand - Statistics Ministry of Health 

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Population groups

Asian people

• Asian Health
• CAHRE - Centre for Asian Health Research and Evaluation, The Univerity of Auckland
• Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research, Auckland University of Technology
• New Zealand Asia Information Service A joint venture between the New Zealand Asia Institute and The University of Auckland Library

Children

• ACC - Preventing Injuries - At School
• Agenda for Children
• Brainwave Trust
• Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee
• Child, Youth and Family, Ministry of Social Development
• Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, University of Otago
• Families Commission
• Family & Community Services, Ministry of Social Development
• Family Violence Death Review Committee
• New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service, University of Otago
• New Zealnad National Poisons Centre
• Office for the Commissioner for Children
• Paediatric Society of New Zealand
• Roy McKenzie Centre for Study of Families / Te Puutahi Rangahau Whanua, Victoria University of Wellington
• Royal NZ Plunket Society
• Safekids New Zealand 
• Team Up Ministry of Education website providing information for parents to help them support their children's education

Māori

• Māori Health Ministry of Health
• Māori SIDS - Kia Mataara
• Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, The University of Auckland
• Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development
• Te Ropu Whariki: the Whariki Research Group, Massey University
• Tōmaiora Māori Health Research Group, The University of Auckland

Older people

• Age Concern
• Falls Prevention Strategy ACC
• Impactwear (distributors of Hip Protectors)
• Improving the Health Care of Older People The University of Auckland
• New Zealand Institute for Research on Ageing, Victoria University of Wellington
• Office for Senior Citizens
• Stroke Education Ltd

Pacific people

• Le Va Pacific health workforce development programme within Te Pou
• Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs
• Pacific Health Ministry of Health
• Pacific Health Research Centre, The University of Auckland
• Pacific Islands Families (PIF) Study, AUT University

Young people

• Child, Youth and Family, Ministry of Social Development
• The Low Down part of Ministry of Health's National Depression Initiative designed for young people
• Ministry of Youth Development
• Paediatric Society of New Zealand
• Sex 'n Respect Working with young people to promote respectful relating, created by Rape Prevention Education
• Team Up Ministry of Education website providing information for parents to help them support their children's education
• Urge/Whakamanawa Youth health information service
• Youth 2000 includes Youth '07 reports
• Youthline

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Injury topic or risk factor

Alcohol and other drugs

• Addiction Research Network, The University of Auckland
• Alcohol Action NZ
• Alcohol Advisory Council (ALAC)
• Alcohol and Public Health Research Unit (archived site)
• Alcohol Healthwatch
• Law Commission Review of the Regulatory Framework for the Sale and Supply of Liquor
• National Drug Policy New Zealand
• SHORE (The Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation), Massey University
• Te Ropu Whariki: the Whariki Research Group, Massey University

Brain injury prevention

• Brain Injury Association
• Brainwave Trust

Burn, scald, electrical injury prevention

• Burn Support Group Charitable Trust
• Energy Safety (Ministry of Economic Development)
• New Zealand Fire Service

Community injury prevention

• ACC - Around New Zealand Local injury claims, injury statistics and injury prevention initiatives
• Christchurch City (International Safe Community)
• Hutt Valley incorporating Hutt City and Upper Hutt (International Safe Community)
• Injury Free Counties Manukau
• Napier (International Safe Community)
• New Plymouth Injury Safe (International Safe Community)
• Porirua City (International Safe Community)
• Porirua Community Guardians
• Porirua Healthy Safer City Trust
• Quality of Life in New Zealand's Large Urban Areas survey results
• Rotorua District (Treasure Rotorua) (International Safe Community)
• Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand
• Safe Wairarapa Region - South Wairarapa District, Carterton District & Masterton District (International Safe Community)
• Safe Waitākere (International Safe Community)
• Safer Whanganui (International Safe Community)
• ShoreSafe Community Trust (International Safe Community)
• Taupo District (International Safe Community
• Tauranga City (International Safe Community)
• Whangarei District (International Safe Community)
• Waimakariri District (International Safe Community)
• Wellington City (International Safe Community)

Crime prevention

• Crime Prevention Ministry of Justice
• Rape Prevention Education
• Safer Communities Action Plan to Reduce Community Violence and Sexual Violence Assault prevention strategy, Ministry of Justice
• Sex 'n Respect Working with young people to promote respectful relating, created by Rape Prevention Education
• Taskforce for Action on Sexual Violence Ministry of Justice
• Taskforce for Action on Violence within Families Ministry of Social Development
• Te Ohaakii a Hine - National Network for Ending Violence Together (TOAH-NEST)

Disaster preparedness and recovery

• Canterbury Earthquake Response information about the 22nd February 2011 earthquake in Canterbury, New Zealand. This site is managed by Environment Canterbury and Christchurch City Council, as part of Civil Defence Emergency Management
• Canterbury Earthquake - Stronger Canterbury, Earthquake Recovery This website provides free access to a wide range of resources and acts as a gateway to central and local government resources, news and services.  This is the New Zealand Government website, manageed by the Department of Internal Affairs
• Brainwave Trust Information on managing stress and trauma with infants and children after the Christchurch earthquake is available from the Brainwave Trust homepage
• Civil Defence Get ready, get thru
• Earthquake Commission
• GeoNet A project to build and operate a geological hazard monitoring system in New Zealand (includes earthquake, volcano, tsunami and large landslide informaton)
• Joint Centre for Disaster Research Massey University & GNS Science
• Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management
• Skylight Provides resources and services to those facing tough times of change, loss, trauma and grief, including current earthquake crisis support information

Family violence prevention

• Brain Injury Association
• Brainwave Trust
• Child, Youth and Family, Ministry of Social Development
• Families Commission
• Family Violence Ministry of Health
• Family Violence Death Review Committee
• Homeworks Trust
• Interdisciplinary Trauma Research Unit, Auckland University of Technology
• New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse
• Shakti Community Council offers women's refuge services to migrant & ethnic minority women
• Shine amalgamation of Safe Families Foundation and Preventing Violence in the Home (formerly the Domestic Violence Centre)
• Taskforce for Action on Violence within Families Ministry of Social Development
• Te Awatea Violence Research Centre, University of Canterbury
• Women's Refuge (National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges)

Mental health

• Clinical Advisory Services Aotearoa (CASA)
• Mental Health Commission
• Mental Health Foundation
• Te Pou National Centre of Mental Health Research, Information and Workforce Development
• The Low Down part of Ministry of Health's National Depression Initiative designed for young people
• Skylight offers services to those facing tough times of change, loss, trauma and grief, including current earthquake crisis support information

Road safety

• ACC - Preventing Injuries - On the Road
• Akilla Driver Fatigue Safety Campaign website
• Brain Injury Association
• Feet First
• KiwiRAP NZ Road Assessment Programme
• Ministry of Transport
• New Zealand Transport Agency (Land Transport NZ & Transit NZ merged August 2008)
• New Zealand Transport Agency Factsheets Road safety and road user information formerly on Land Transport New Zealand website
• Right Car NZTA guide to safer, fuel effecient and cleaner vehicles
• Road Safe Auckland
• Safe2Go
• Safer Journeys NZ Road Safety Strategy to 2020
• SmartMovez Safe and sustainable land transport - NZTA
• Traffic and Road Safety Research (TARS) Group The University of Waikato 
• TravelWise (Auckland region)

Sport and recreation safety

• ACC - Preventing Injuries - Playing Sport
• Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
• Maritime New Zealand
• Mountain Safety Council
• Outdoors New Zealand
• Water Safety New Zealand
• Watersafe Auckland

Suicide prevention

• Canterbury Suicide Project, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago
• Lifeline Aotearoa LivingWorks offers suicide prevention education - ASIST
• QPR New Zealand offers suicide prevention training
• SPINZ - Suicide Prevention Information New Zealand
• Suicide Prevention in New Zealand Ministry of Health

Water safety

• Drowning Prevention Strategy ACC
• Maritime New Zealand
• Water Safety New Zealand
• Watersafe Auckland

Workplace safety

• ACC - Preventing Injuries - At Work
• ACC - Preventing Injuries  - On the Farm
• Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics
• Centre for Occupational Health & Safety Research, Auckland University of Technology
• Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
• Department of Building and Housing   formerly the Building Industry Authority
• Department of Human Resource Management, Massey University
• Department of Labour - Health and Safety
• Energy Safety (Ministry of Economic Development)
• FarmSafe
• Maritime New Zealand
• New Zealand Safety Council
• Occupational Health and Safety Research Network of New Zealand (OHNSNetNZ) - includes NOHSAC reports and research database
• SiteSafe NZ
• Transport Accident Investigation Commission investigates significant aviation, rail and marine accidents and incidents, to determine the circumstances and causes, with a view to avoiding similar circumstances in the future
• Workplace Health and Safety Strategy

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Government and other relevant websites

Government departments and agencies

• ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation)
• Child, Youth and Family
• Coronial Services of New Zealand Ministry of Justice
• Department of Labour
• Earthquake Commission
• Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority
• Families Commission
• Health Research Council
• New Zealand Health Sponsorship Council
• Human Rights Commission
• Law Commission
• Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management
• Ministry of Consumer Affairs
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs
• Ministry of Social Development
• Ministry of Transport
• Ministry of Women's Affairs
• Ministry of Youth Development
• New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy
• New Zealand Police
• New Zealand Legislation free access to New Zealand legislation
• New Zealand Transport Agency (Land Transport NZ & Transit NZ merged August 2008)
• Office for Disability Issues
• Office for Senior Citizens
• Office of Ethnic Affairs
• Population and Sustainable Development  provides a gateway to New Zealand population statistics
• Statistics New Zealand
• Te Puni Kökiri, the Ministry of Mäori Development
• Transport Accident Investigation Commission investigates significant aviation, rail and marine accidents and incidents, to determine the circumstances and causes, with a view to avoiding similar circumstances in the future

 

Other organisations

• Health Improvement & Innovation Resource Centre
• Health Literacy New Zealand
• Health Navigator New Zealand
• Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand
• Public Health Association
• St John
• Standards NZ
• Webhealth

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