Many valuable lessons have been learned from injury prevention programs that have been implemented and evaluated. When thinking about implementing a program in your community, literature about program effectiveness can be a powerful tool in your decision making throughout the design, implementation, and evaluation of your program.
Existing evidence can help you identify the most promising approaches for your specifi c injury focus and community characteristics and can be helpful in steering you away from programs that have not worked well in the past. Existing evidence can help you gain support for your project because securing community support or resources for your project will be much more successful if you can demonstrate that the approach has already been effective. Existing evidence can also help focus the design and implementation of your project and help you understand what measures to include in your evaluation.
This chapter helps you fi nd the existing evidence, understand what factors are important when reading this evidence, and understand other factors that are important when translating a program to your community.
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Peek-Asa, C.L., Mallonee, S. (2008). Interpreting Evidence of Effectiveness: How Do You Know When a Prevention Approach Will Work for Your Community?. In: Doll, L.S., Bonzo, S.E., Sleet, D.A., Mercy, J.A. (eds) Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29457-5_21
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