# Presentation: 700458

## EU Public Health Programme2003-2008

**Strand 1: Improve information system**
- Establish Working Parties:
- Lifestyle and other health determinants
- Morbidity
- Health systems
- Health and environment
- Mental health
***Accidents and injuries***
***Community health indicators***

## Projects awarded grants in 2003

- Coordinating secretariat for WP on Accidents & Injuries. Greece
- Maintenance, development, promotion of Injury Database (IDB). Austria
- Child Safety Action Plans. Netherlands
- European Network for Safety among Elderly. Greece

## Proposals for grants 2004

- BOI: Indicators and recommendations for prevention and control (Spain coord.)
- Best practices and efficient policies for injury prevention in the EU (Greece coord.)
- Recommendations for preventing falls among elderly people (Finland coord.)
- Prevention of accidents among vulnerable road users (Austria coord.)
- Dissemination of good practices in accident & injury prevention (Netherlands coord.)

## Proposals for grants 2004(ctd.)

- Analysis of mortality data on injuries (validation of indicators) (France coord.)
- Development of information systems on social and health care services (esp. for migration across borders) (Italy coord.)

## Task forces established by European Commission 2004

- Volontary work, mandate to produce short reports by end of 2004, aim to enhance the injury prevention agenda in the PHP:
- 	1. Road Safety
- 	2. Burden of Injuries
- 	3. Injury Prevention indicators

## Terms of Reference for Task Force on Injury Indicators

- Propose maximum five indicators, made operational by commonly agreed definitions and available data (by end 2004)
- Develop indicators within ECHI framework
- Integrate indicators in ECHI-2 ’1st Phase Core Indicators’ (shortlist)
- Over-all aim of indicators: Support MS/EU health policy priorities, i.e. monitoring trends, comparing countries, indicating areas for policy action

## Time frame for Task Force on Injury Indicators

- Task force to continue work in affiliation with Working Party on Indicators, aiming to improve EU Health and Knowledge System
- Development of injury indicators linked to ECHI-2 related work
- Cooperation with Eurostat, WHO, OECD, ICE, etc.

## ECHI-2 partners’ work on indicators related to accidents/injuries (example)

- EU Health Monitoring Programme:
- 	CHILD project: Child Health Indicators of Life and Development, includes
- 	Child mortality: *Fatal unintentional and intentional injuries*
*	*Child morbidity: *Injuries to children*
*	*Child Health Systems and Policy: *Child transportation safety*

## Current issues for policy action (ctd.):

- Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, June 2004, ”The future for our children”. Declaration on:
- 	Children’s Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe:
- 	*Regional Priority Goal 2: ”...to prevent and substantially reduce health consequences from accidents and injuries..”*

## EuroSafe

**EuroSafe**

**European coalition for public health action on injury research and prevention**
**Initiative of ECOSA**

- Tine Curtis

## Objectives EuroSafe

**Objectives EuroSafe**

**Exchange of information**
**Facilitate partnering**
**Produce statements**
**Carry out joint projects**

- Tine Curtis

## Activities EuroSafe

**Activities EuroSafe**

**Analysis of policy issues and issuing of research statements**
**Identification of gaps in knowledge and practices**
**Identification of collaborative projects**
**Development of a European Research Programme**
**Dissemination of regular updates**
**Maintenance of membership list**

- Tine Curtis

## Members EuroSafe

**Members EuroSafe**

**Representatives from agencies/authorities interested in injury prevention and research**
**Membership of ECOSA is not required**
**Currently:**
** ****65 members**
** ****39 organisations**
** ****22 countries**

- Tine Curtis

## Consultation of members EuroSafe

**Consultation of members EuroSafe**

**Members are consulted on progress of work and plans for next years**
**Members have the right to:**
**	****-****	****approve the plan of work for the current year**
**	****-****	****approve report on past year activities**
**	****-****	****elect members of the Steering Committee for ****	****three years**
**	****-****	****modify rules for operation with a minimum ****	****two-third majority vote**
**Members will be regularly updated on new developments**

- Tine Curtis