Best, Good, and Promising Practices

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Developing an injury prevention program

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Program models and practices can help us improve our childhood injury prevention strategies. “Best" practices are those that have been formally evaluated and found to be effective. "Good" practices are those that have not been formally evaluated, but use innovative approaches that demonstrate positive results. And “promising” practices are experimental approaches that are thought to result in positive outcomes. CIPN encourages the use of “best”, “good”, or “promising” practices when developing or expanding a childhood injury prevention program or activity.

The following is a list of websites where you can search for “best”, “good”, and “promising” injury prevention practices:

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• CDC National Center for Health Marketing: Guide to Community Preventive Services
• CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
• EPPI-Centre: Evidence for Policy and Practice Information Coordinating Centre
• Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center Best Practices
• The Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention
• The Cochrane Collaboration
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission