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Using ambulance data to inform violence prevention: A guide for police, public health and violence prevention partnerships
Dec 15, 2017
Technical Report
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In spring 2015, the West Midlands Police received a Police Innovation Fund grant to undertake a 'proof of concept' evaluation of the utility of using ambulance data for violence prevention activities, to be conducted by RAND Europe. Similar to Emergency Department data utilised in the 'Cardiff Model' approach to violence prevention, ambulance data is thought to offer a new source of intelligence data for police and community safety/violence prevention partnerships. Such data may be able to help identify unknown patterns of violence, and from this contribute to solutions to prevent and/or reduce violence. This study investigates whether this data adds potential value for injury surveillance. That is, does it bring new information over and above that already available? Within that, there is an assessment of data quality in terms of completeness and, for example, the extent that the data sources overlap. Secondly, it scopes whether and if so, how, these data could be applied to violence prevention activities.
Chapter One
Summary
Chapter Two
Introduction
Chapter Three
Requirements for accessing ambulance data
Chapter Four
Understanding the datasets
Chapter Five
Process evaluation results
Chapter Six
Comparing police, ambulance and ED data
Chapter Seven
Conclusion
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