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Accidents and injuries present a major health and consumer protection challenge EuroSafe the fourth edition of 'Injuries in the European Union' is being released. The report reveals that an annual average of 40 million people within the EU need hospital treatment and 233.000 people die as a result of an injury event. There are great differences between countries in the number of fatal and hospital treated accidental injuries per 100.000 inhabitants. This clearly indicates that there exists ample opportunities for rolling out measures that lowered injury rates across the entire EU-region. read more...
Coalition of 28 European organisations: pan-European accident and injury data system needed On the occasion of the European Consumer Day organised by the European Economic and Social Committee on 14 March in Brussels, a coalition of twenty-eight European umbrella organisations launched a Joint Call urging European Institutions and the Member States to create an EU-funded accident & injury data system under the co-ordination of the European Commission. Such a system is deemed to be critical in setting of priorities; development of policy; determination of preventive actions and public awareness campaigns; understanding of risk; design of safety into new products; and development of standards. The system would help create a level-playing field for European consumers and European businesses. read more...
Fall prevention - Spearhead in EU-innovation In the framework of the EU-Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA), the commission has selected Fall prevention as one of the six spearheads of actions for this and coming years. Action Groups have been established for each of the six spearheads and action plans were delivered by the end of last year. Action Plan “Falls Prevention Initiative” aims to increase the involvement of citizens, stakeholders and decision makers in the process of developing, producing and delivering policies and tools for fall-prevention programmes, to scale-up service delivery and to promote new ideas and technology to move to the market by connecting research to innovation and implementation. read more...