Lord Stephen R, Delbaere Kim, Tiedemann Anne, Smith Stuart T, Sturnieks Daina L
Falls and Balance Research Group, Neuroscience Research Australia, The University of New South Wales, Australia.
N S W Public Health Bull. 2011 Jun;22(3-4):84-7. doi: 10.1071/NB10058.
Preventing falls and fall-related injuries among older people is an urgent public health challenge. This paper provides an overview of the background to and research planned for a 5-year National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Grant on implementing falls prevention research findings into policy and practice. This program represents a partnership between key Australian falls prevention researchers, policy makers and information technology companies which aims to: (1) fill gaps in evidence relating to the prevention of falls in older people, involving new research studies of risk factor assessment and interventions for falls prevention; (2) translate evidence into policy and practice, examining the usefulness of new risk-identification tools in clinical practice; and (3) disseminate evidence to health professionals working with older people, via presentations, new evidence-based guidelines, improved resources and learning tools, to improve the workforce capacity to prevent falls and associated injuries in the future.
预防老年人跌倒及与跌倒相关的伤害是一项紧迫的公共卫生挑战。本文概述了一项为期五年的国家卫生与医学研究委员会合作资助项目的背景及计划开展的研究，该项目旨在将跌倒预防研究成果转化为政策与实践。该项目是澳大利亚主要的跌倒预防研究人员、政策制定者和信息技术公司之间的合作，目标是：（1）填补老年人跌倒预防相关证据的空白，包括开展新的危险因素评估及跌倒预防干预研究；（2）将证据转化为政策与实践，考察新的风险识别工具在临床实践中的实用性；（3）通过讲座、新的循证指南、改进的资源和学习工具，向从事老年人工作的卫生专业人员传播证据，以提高未来预防跌倒及相关伤害的劳动力能力。
