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The North Carolina Falls Prevention works to reduce the number of injuries and deaths from falls using the following strategies:
- Building
and strengthening regional/local falls prevention coalitions.
- Developing
and disseminating evidence based falls prevention programs.
- Increasing
access, timeliness and understanding of falls prevention data.
- Ensuring
that each community or county has an array of resources essential for falls
prevention.
- Educating
and communicating with key constituencies about falls prevention.
- Cultivating
relationships with key new partners in NC.
- Using
policy as a prevention tool.
- Sharing information about current activities, research, and projects happening across the state.
For more information about what we are working on, please review the 2012-2013 NCFPC Action Plan
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