Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) collects injury data from hospital emergency departments on behalf of Queensland Health with the support of the Mater Health Services Brisbane. QISU's core business is injury data collection, data analysis and data dissemination. QISU supports injury prevention through the provision of injury surveillance data collected from metropolitan, regional and remote areas of the State. QISU’s data provide a unique database of intentional and unintentional, all age injury presentations. These data characterise and measure the frequency of injuries, provide demographic information and detail activity, location and main product or factor involved. The QISU database provides information to develop and evaluate injury prevention programs at a state level. In addition QISU promotes partnership building, provides data collection support including training and provides programme planning, marketing and evaluation support.

QISU promotes targeted intervention and monitoring of outcome to determine the efficacy and cost benefit of injury prevention programs at the local level. QISU data is used to interpret and understand the incidence and patterns of injury at the community level in order to prioritise and design intervention programs. Every community has their own unique injury profile and each community will develop their own methods for dealing with their injury problems. This is part of becoming a Safe Community – a goal more and more communities are aspiring to. Communities are assisted in becoming WHO Safe Communities if they can draw on the experience of other communities and resources including QISU.

QISU also provides:

• a bi-monthly publication, the Injury Bulletin
• reports and data interpretation for all manner of government and nongovernment organisations
• support injury prevention program planning
• advocacy and support for advocacy
• assistance and training in working with the media
• support for Safe Communities in Queensland.

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