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Inventory of European NGOs
The inventory is broken down into the following injury domains:
Consumer Safety,
Suicide prevention
Transport
Violence prevention
Work safety
Other relevant organisations
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NGO declaration
A declaration on behalf of the network on priorities in injury prevention in Europe for all types of injuries in all age groups, by taking into account the relevant documents of the Working Party on Accidents and Injuries.
The declaration was issued at the 2nd European Conference in Paris, October 2008, and has now been signed by fourteen European NGO’s.
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The role of public health in injury prevention: Policy briefing #1
The aim of this policy briefing is to define the role of public health in the prevention of injuries. After mapping out the scale and burden of the injury issue the question is raised ‘Why should such a serious cause of death and disability have been so neglected by society at large?
Policies prioritising the prevention of injuries and violence are then detailed and the effectiveness of prevention measures is explored.
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Developing national policy for injury prevention: Policy briefing #2
The aim of this policy briefing is to highlight the key steps needed to formulate national policies and to act as a guide for the health sector on how to proceed in developing injury prevention policy.
Developing a national plan or policy on injury and/or violence prevention is an important process and sufficient development time and resources should be devoted to it, to maximize its likelihood of endorsement by the state, followed by implementation by all the partners in a coordinated way.
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Inequality in injury risks: Policy briefing #3
This policy briefing highlights the inequalities in injuries and injury risks in the European Region to maximize the potential for a policy response.
Understanding the determinants is part of the public health response to prevention.
Socioeconomic class and poverty influence the occurrence and outcomes of injuries through physical, social, psychological, educational and occupational variables, as well as other societal factors, such as the existence of social capital and social networks.
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Road traffic injuries among vulnerable road users: Policy briefing #4
The purpose of this policy briefing is to highlight the burden of road traffic injuries in vulnerable road users and to make policy proposals. RTIs are a preventable public health problem and protecting vulnerable road users, many of whom are children, is an important area of social justice.
The evidence on preventing road traffic injuries has been summarized in the World report on road traffic injury prevention and policy priority has been given to the area at both the international and European level.
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Alcohol and injuries: Policy briefing #5
The purpose of this policy briefing is to highlight the role of alcohol as a risk factor for injuries and violence and suggest public health initiatives to prevent alcohol related injuries and violence. It provides a measure of the enormity of the injury burden attributable to alcohol and highlights that many evidence based measures exist.
The overall economic loss to society resulting from harmful alcohol consumption, including costs to the health, social welfare and criminal justice systems, lost productivity, and reduced economic development are enormous.
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Youth violence prevention: Policy briefing #6
The purpose of this policy briefing is to highlight how youth violence can be prevented, in particular from a public health perspective. Youth violence is a preventable public health problem but it requires resources and commitment. Risk factors are witnessing violence in the family, poor parenting, poor education, inequalities of wealth, dense concentration of poverty, the availability of firearms, and alcohol and substance abuse.
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Injury surveillance: a health policy priority: Policy briefing #7
The purpose of this policy briefing is to provide basic insight in the spectrum of injury data sources and available statistics. It also aims to assist respective stakeholders in area of injury prevention and safety promotion to develop good injury surveillance systems by referring to existing standards and good practice in the EU and abroad.
Such good injury surveillance systems are intended to record information on individual cases of injury and produce statistical overviews of an injury problem, with all the relevant data being classified and coded according to agreed international standards.
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Using advocacy for injury prevention: Policy briefing #8
This policy briefing sets out to define advocacy, discuss why advocacy is needed in violence and injury prevention, provides international and national examples of advocating across the sectors and with the public, and then concludes with some generalisable lessons for action. Advocating for the prevention of injuries and violence is a sound public health objective because they are preventable.
Advocacy is one of the three major strategies for health promotion and can take many forms including the use of the mass media and multi-media, direct political lobbying, and community mobilization through, for example, coalitions of interest around defined issues.
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