Parachute’s National Injury Prevention Day (NIPD) 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.

Injury prevention is critical to saving lives: Did you know that injury is the No. 1 cause of death of Canadians ages 1 to 44? Or that injury costs the Canadian economy $29.4 billion a year?

Parachute knows that most injuries are predictable and preventable: They need your help spreading their information on preventing serious injuries on the road, at home and at play.

Parachute’s goal is to provide the necessary information and tools to the public, and to work diligently to ensure that one day Canada will be free of serious injuries.

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.