Vision
The Strategy’s enduring vision is for a comprehensive national data collection, to be known as the National Sports Injury Data Asset (the Asset), that will:
- help individuals, organisations, researchers and policymakers understand the risks of injury in community sports
- indicate where and what type of injury prevention programs are needed
- measure the costs of sports injuries to the health system and the benefits of prevention programs
- provide ongoing surveillance to
- identify emerging risks, and
- evaluate injury prevention programs in the community.
The strategy will be successful if:
- sports injury data is collected more systematically across private and public collections and contributes to the Asset
- data collectors have more knowledge of, and apply, best practices around data collection, consent, privacy, security, and data sharing
- data collection is efficient and becomes part of normal practice
- the benefits from the data Asset outweigh any data collection costs
- good quality data is available over time by sport, age, sex, identification as First Nations person, and other demographic information to inform the benefits and risks of participation for:
- individuals to make sport participation decisions
- sporting organisations to prioritise injury prevention priorities
- researchers to investigate injury causes, equipment, assess prevention interventions and build capacity in injury prevention research
- policymakers to inform investments in participation or prevention
- health providers to plan for injury treatment demands