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 !

kruge@who.int