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Injuries and violence: new initiatives
Injuries and violence: new initiatives
Etienne Krug
Director, Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability
World Health Organization
New initiativesNew initiatives
Decade of action on road safety: 2011-2020
Child injury prevention
Child maltreatment prevention
Trauma care
Decade of action on road safety: 2011-2020 Decade of action on road safety: 2011-2020
Decade of action on road safety: 2011-2020 Decade of action on road safety: 2011-2020
Child injury prevention Child injury prevention
Child injury prevention Child injury prevention
Continued roll out of World Report
Regional and national launches
Policy discussions in international political fora
Partnerships
Supporting countries to set up prevention and services
Child maltreatmentChild maltreatment
"Working together for a Safer Childhood" 3rd ISPCAN Arab Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1-4 March 2009
Saudi "National Family Safety Programme"
Example: Child protection centre in Jordan "Dar Al Aman" or "House of Security". "Child maltreatment comes out of the shadows" Bulletin of World Health Organization, May 2009.
Child maltreatment: planned multi-country child maltreatment prevention project
Child maltreatment: planned multi-country child maltreatment prevention project
WHO and partners Reduce child maltreatment and life-long
negative consequences 5-10 low- and middle-income countries
– Capacity development– National policy and
programmes– Child maltreatment monitoring – Outcome evaluation
Reduced child maltreatment – Enhanced child development– Enhanced academic performance– Improved life-long health
Resource mobilization underway
"The 2006 WHO report on prevention of child maltreatment drew attention to the need for this topic to achieve the prominence and investment in prevention and epidemiological monitoring that is given to other serious public-health concerns with lifelong consequences affecting children" (Gilbert et al,
Lancet, 3 December, 2008).
Trauma care: EMRO successesTrauma care: EMRO successes
Many centres of excellence and success stories in EMRO.
– Qatar: Well organized trauma unit at Hamad General Hospital
– Oman: Leader in orthopaedic care
– Pakistan: Emergency services at Aga Khan in Karachi.
– Many other examples.
However, there is a lack of – Global coordination and leadership
– Widespread uptake of trauma care
Trauma care: global initiative to scale up Trauma care: global initiative to scale up
Preparations for a large scale global trauma care initiative:
Global Forum - increase political will.– Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – October, 2009
High level policy discussions
Robust country support programme– As with HIV/AIDS, malaria, essential medicines, and others
Looking for – Champions
– Political support
– Funding.
For all of these initiativesFor all of these initiatives
Champions
Technical collaboration
Political support
Funding.
Thank you !