There are a number of successes, and I think it starts with a strategy. When we look at the EU countries, the ones that have been most successful in reducing their injury rates are the ones that have a plan, a plan with priorities, with resources, and with measurements. So generally, that's what I would say.
When we look at things like drowning, we look internationally at New Zealand, which implemented the four-sided pool fencing and saw its deaths due to drowning in young children reduced to virtually zero. So there are different strategies for different injuries, and that's where we rely on the surveillance data.
But we also rely on the data collection systems, like the CHIRPP data and the Canadian agricultural injury report, which provide us with contextual information. As injury prevention people, we need to know more than only the absolute numbers. We need to know what's happening around those issues. Around drowning, we needed to know that it was children accessing pools when they weren't meant to be swimming, so we could then look at what's effective in terms of strategies for implementation.
There isn't sort of one-size-fits-all. It depends on the injury issue that you're talking about.
Ms. Billings talked about the good practice guide that we're interested in, Canadianizing it from the European Child Safety Alliance. Basically, that goes through leading causes of death and looks at what evidence there is for effective interventions and then provides some case studies. My vision for Canada would be to have a document like this so that people working in injury prevention, in public health, in policy, will have some type of standardized information so that they can make good decisions, whether it's on education, whether it's on policy, or whether it's on environmental change.