Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de santé publique
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Can J Public Health · Mar 1995
An evaluation of a hospital-based drinking and driving prevention program.
For the past four years, Victoria Hospital has provided a drinking and driving prevention program: IMPACT - Impaired Minds Produced by Alcohol Cause Trauma. The program provides information to Grade 11 students about the potential "impact" of alcohol-related trauma on themselves, their family and their future. ⋯ Determining whether or not increased knowledge and changed attitude in fact results in changed behaviour is beyond the scope of this study. Further longitudinal, quantitative evaluation of program effectiveness, based on traffic safety indices, is being undertaken.
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The objective of this study was to describe fatal occupational electrocutions that occurred in Quebec between 1981 and 1988 and propose a classification suitable for setting up a prevention agenda. Of 63 fatalities, an investigation report was available in 57 (90.5%). ⋯ The first group (56.5% of the cases) were electrocuted by direct contact with voltage less than 10 Kvolts and the second by the intermediary of a vector with voltage above 10 Kvolts. The identification of the two patterns of electrocutions provided an additional argument for shifting recommendations for prevention from educating the workers, to reducing the electrical hazards at the source.
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A mail survey on several medical and social issues surrounding the AIDS epidemic was conducted among Québec physicians of a random sample. Of 1,530 physicians, 879 (57.5%) returned their completed questionnaire. ⋯ Logistic regression suggests that the perceived risk of contracting HIV through contact with patients is directly related to the physicians' type of medical training and to their estimate of the risk of contamination with a contaminated needle. Finally, a third of the respondents consider continuing medical education on AIDS insufficient in the Province of Québec while 82.1% want to improve their knowledge about AIDS.