The Community Against Preventable Injuries (Preventable) is a non-profit organization that works to transform societal attitudes and behaviours towards injury prevention and reduce the burden that preventable injuries cause in British Columbia, Canada.
Too many British Columbians are still getting seriously injured because they behave as though preventable injuries won’t happen to them. In fact, in BC, 2,000 people die from injury each year. That’s 1 person every 4 hours. This doesn’t even include the 35,000 who visit the hospital for an injury each year, or the 8,000 who are left with a permanent disability. And let’s not forget the financial burden that injuries have on our health care system. It’s in the billions.
Since 2009, we aim to remind people that injuries are not just “accidents,” and that simple actions can make a difference. Our latest campaign, The Truth Hurts, challenges us to rethink those little lies that we tell ourselves every day.
