I can speak to some of that and to one of the biggest challenges we have right now.
First of all, yes, I think we could be doing more. Second, I think there are some organizations that are working towards those preventative measures.
One of our biggest challenges has been and continues to be that if I can only afford to do a handful of things, and you ask me which things I can do to buy us the best possible prevention, to build the most resiliency, and to reduce the risk, we don't have those empirically supported answers in as robust a fashion as we need for any of us to make those statements.
We can make some general statements for you, but one of the challenges we've seen is that it has been very difficult to engage in prospective longitudinal research, so that we can measure people before they're injured, identify what things are associated with each individual in large groups, and then track them over years and years. Then we could say to you, “This variable was associated with resilience and this one was associated with risk.” This requires a tremendous commitment on behalf of researchers, clinicians, government, and public safety agencies. It's a team effort. It's one of the things that we're excited about being able to begin shortly with our RCMP, because those are critical answers.
That doesn't mean we can't give you generalities. But specifics, so that we can then provide really good information, require investment in long-term research, and that requires big collaborations. That's what we're trying to do and trying to start, beginning this year, so that we can give you a smarter answer, hopefully very soon.
