Parachute’s National Injury Prevention Day (NIPD), Tuesday, July 5, 2022, is a day to raise awareness around the importance of injury prevention and aid Canadians to live long lives to the fullest through education and advocacy. Health Canada recognizes this date as an official national Health Promotion Day.

Did you know that unintentional injury is the No. 1 cause of death of Canadians ages 1 to 34? Or that injury costs the Canadian economy $29.4 billion a year?

Quick facts

• Every day, 48 Canadians die and 634 are hospitalized because of injuries.
• Preventable injury kills more Canadian children than any disease, and more youth than all other causes combined.
• 75 per cent of injury-related deaths are from unintentional causes, such as falls, car crashes and poisonings.
• Falls are the leading cause of injury deaths, hospitalizations, emergency department visits and disabilities in Canada.

Most injuries are predictable and preventable. Injury prevention is critical to saving lives.

Help spread the word.