KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET

WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE

Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine

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COMMUNITY SAFETY PROMOTIONSAFE COMMUNITY WEEKLY NEWSNo. 14August 2005******* LETTER FROM THE EDITOR*********
Welcome to the fourteenth issue of Safe Community Weekly News in 2005, the electronic
Safe Community Weekly News is edited by the European Safe Community Network and the
WHO CC on Community Safety Promotion on behalf of Safe Communities Network.

WHAT IS NEW AT SAFE COMMUNITIES?
In this issue:

CONFERENCE: 4th African Regional Conference on SC, Port-said, Egypt
INVITATION: The Safe Community of Raanana, Israel
COLLABORATION: The South African – Swedish Research partnership program
PROGRAM: Community safety promotion program in Beijing Maizidian, China
SEMINAR: Seminar on Traffic Calming – Using International Experience, Czech
TOOLS: Prevention Connection: Violence Against Women Prevention Partnership**************************************************************************

4th African Regional Conference on Safe Communities“Communities for Injury and Violence Prevention”
3 – 5 July 2005. Port-Said, EgyptThe 4th African Regional Conference on Safe Communities held in Post Said, Egypt,from 3rd to 5th July. Participants from more than 10 African countries participated inthe conference. The conference opened by the Governor of Port-said Dr. Mostafa
Kamel Mohamed, the President of Suis Chanel University Dr. Farouk Abdull El
Kader and Egyptian Red Crescent Society Representatives. Dr. Mohamad Seedat
from UNISA represented the international Safe Community movement

Poster Session

Conference organisers

Welcome message from theorganisers of the 8th Int. Conference
on IP and SP in South Africa

Welcome message from theorganisers of the 3rd AsianRegional Conference in Taiwan

Site visit to a Kapci company in Port Said…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

The Safe Community of Raanana, Israel
would like to invite all
Safe Community colleagues
to the designation ofRaanana as a Safe Community
The ceremony will take place
September 27th, 2005
On September 28th, all guests are invited to attend a one-day conferenceand visit the sites of Raanana
For more information, please contact:
Nehama Efrati: nehamae@raanana.muni.il

JOINT RESEARCH PROJECT UNDER THE SOUTH AFRICAN – SWEDISH RESEARCHPARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME
Injury Surveillance Data Utility and Impact: Developing the Injury Data, Prevention,
Policy and Practice Nexus 2003 – 2005
Report BackInherent in the public health approach toinjury reduction and prevention is theassumption that quality injury data may besystematically and fluidly translated into
empirical platforms for the development ofeffective injury prevention practices andpolicies. This assumption, however, remains
relatively unsubstantiated and therefore
commands urgent attention for aninvestigation of the context, content andprocess factors that are required for theclarification of this research-policy-practice
nexus. The Injury Surveillance Data Utilityand Impact: Developing the Injury Data,Prevention, Policy and Practice Nexus
Ingela Hallgren, Borås passes over the Borås official standard to
Brett Bowman, UNISA
Project was conceptualised as a responseto the need for a better understanding ofthe processes, contexts and actors that promote data utility and the translation of information into
prevention action. The project, operationalised under a joint Swedish-South African research
partnership has two primary objectives, each linked to a set of specific objectives. These are:••To utilise the available injury surveillance findings generated in Pretoria (South Africa), Borås(Sweden) and Kaunas (Lithuania) to stimulate and inform violence and injury prevention
initiatives; andTo document and evaluate the outcomes and impacts of the resultant policy and intervention
strategies adopted by city governments and related stakeholders in response to the injury
surveillance presented to them.

As part of ongoing research between the three communities, a set of customised city-specific reports
detailing the injury data and distribution of intervention agencies and resources at each site has been
produced. These include:••

A Non – Natural Mortality Report for Tshwane Metro (Pretoria) detailing injury trends for theperiod 2000 –2002, prepared by the UNISA Institute for Social and Health Sciences.
A service audit report of the current injury prevention initiatives that constitute the injury
prevention infrastructure of the city of Tshwane/Pretoria, prepared by the UNISA Institute forSocial and Health Sciences.
• A service audit of the local safety promotion
infrastructure of Boras prepared by Karolinska
Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences,
Division of Social Medicine, Stockholm, BoråsCity & Rescue Services and Swedish Rescue
Services Agency, (NCO), Karlskoga• A report detailing the injury mortality trends inselected local communities of Sweden andLithuania that offers some implications forprevention, prepared by Kaunas University ofMedicine, Faculty of Public Health, Department ofSocial Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania, Karolinska
Institutet and NCO.

All participants at the final session of theJohannesburg seminarEach of these reports has been disseminated to their respective communities. The rsearch teamrecently convened in Johannesburg, South Africa to discuss the process, actor, content and context
factors that have defined the receptivity and action reposnes of each of these receipient contexts. Thevisit also formed part of the exchange of scientific and technological skills through visits, training
seminars and regular electronic communications objective of the project. The Swedish and SouthAfrican partners have made regular visits to both the Swedish and South African sites, and this mostrecent Swedish visit to South Africa aimed to encourage
exposure to the many opportunities and challenges
inherent to the examination of the research, policy andinjury reduction nexus across both contexts. The meetingallowed the researchers to share expertise andunderstand context-specific data utility processes as they
relate to injury prevention outcomes in the respective cities
of Tshwane/Pretoria and Boras. A number of anticipatedoutcomes are envisaged by the partnership. Theseinclude:§§§

The development of an injury data uptake model
Kjell Wahlbeck, Mohamed Seedat, UNISA and Diana
for the cities of Boras and Tshwane/Pretoria.
Hudson in front of the University of South Africa in
Formal evidence-based reports aimed at thePretoria/Tshwane
development of an injury surveillance system atthe emergency department level, and at the local health care center level in Borås.
Formal evidence-based reports aimed at better coordination or centralization of injury records
in both cities.
The South African team plan to publish their preliminary
findings in a number of formal publications. These articles will
focus on the politics of injury prevention in cities, deciphering
the contexts of data uptake in South African cities andpromoting methodologies that produce utile information for
injury prevention action.

Brett Bowman, UNISA andcolleagues from Borås. Study visit inJanuary 2004 at the Borås traffic
safety programme.

The Swedish team have identified the testing of a new model
for measuring the efficacy of Safe Communities (voluntary)
approach as it is linked with new compulsory policy
requirements for Action Programming, under new Civil
Protection Act (2004), understanding the role of accident
investigations in community safety programmes and providing
an overview of the 15 years of local safety promotion
infrastructure in Borås as priorities for the next cycle of theproject.

Both teams agreed that the existing contacts between the cities should be strengthened in the comingyears and that collaboration should be extended to finding platforms for partnership in the form ofdirect city level authority exchanges.
By Robert Ekman1 and Brett Bowman2
1. Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine,
Stockholm and Swedish Rescue Services Agency, (NCO)
2. University of South Africa´s Institute for Social and Health Sciences & MRC – UNISA Crime,
Violence and Injury Lead ProgrammeMaking Beijing Maizidian a Safe Community.

1. Aiming at getting more safe community experience, members of Maizidian Community
Safety Promotion Committee and the nine Safe Work groups visited Tuen Mun, one of thedesignated WHO Safe Communities in Asia, plus Singapore in April 2005. Research andview exchange were carried out as soon as the delegation returned Beijing, they proposedsome 70 reports on how to construct safe community in line with WHO safe communityindicators.
2. Experts invited by Safe Homes group gave a special lecture on women’s health forinhabitants in Maizidian on May 17. The lecture focused on gynaecological diseases andrelevant precautions.
3. A safe Maizidian was stressed by local officials at the launch ceremony of initiatinginternationalized security system on May 26, 2005. More than 1300 inhabitants,volunteers and employees attended the ceremony, Altogether 10 people were awarded fortheir contribution to Maizidian’s public security. Specially designed Bilingual armbands
and hats were popular among the native and foreign community security volunteers.
4. Including Maizidian Weekly, a newspaper run by Maizidian Sub-district Office ofChaoyang District Government, Major media in Beijing offered overall reports about
Maizidian’s community security system launching ceremony. (Foreign volunteers werehighlighted also.)
5. Altogether160 children from the five communities of Maizidian took part in the Safety
Knowledge Contest held on May 28. The organizers, Safe Children and Safe Road group,
hoped to enhance children’s awareness of road safety by various interactive activities.
6. Safe Schools group successfully held an international painting contest to promotechildren’s participation of issues such as environment protection, pollution reduction.
7. Taking “Hand in Hand we are good friends” as the theme, Safe Children and Safe Road
groups prepared a joint celebration for International Children’s day on May 30. Children
from different countries added unique features to Maizidian, the undergoinginternationalized community.
8. Hot weather is, probably, a may factor causing injuries, so the Safe Workplaces groupcarried out safety promotion at the construction sites in Maizidian to enhance workers’
awareness of risky situations and operations on June 7.

Seminar on Traffic Calming – Using International Experience
Czech Republic
On 17th May 2005 the Institute of Eco-Policy in co-operation with the Ministry of Transport and theTransport Centre (CDV) organised a seminar on best practises in traffic calming in urban areas. This
project, partly financed from the PHARE funds is targeted especially to decision makers on local leveltraffic engineers of the Police Force, officers of the Local Authorities etc., and it is a part of the wider
project called “Safe Traffic in Cities” prepared by the Road Safety Unit of the Ministry of Transport.

For more information please contact Jaroslav Horin, email: jaroslav.horin@mdcr.cz…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Prevention Connection: Violence Against Women Prevention Partnership
What would the world be like without violence against women?
Prevention Institute-developed web conferences, Toward a Community
Solution: Advancing Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women and Toward a Community
Solution: Fostering Strategic Partnerships to Prevent Violence Against Women, seek to explore this vision byproviding a comprehensive primary prevention approach to violence against women. You or your organization
can become part of these web-based trainings as you watch the slides and listen to audio recordings from yourown computer, all currently available for download at http://www.preventioninstitute.org/violence_women.html.
These web conferences are made possible through Prevention Connection, a national project to build thecapacity of local, state, national, and tribal agencies and organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate
effective violence against women prevention initiatives.
Prevention Institute is a non-profit national center dedicated to improving community health and well-being bybuilding momentum for effective primary prevention. We provide training, technical assistance, research, andevaluation for coalitions, community-based organizations, government agencies and private foundations toestablish effective prevention programs and policies. In addition to working directly with communities andinstitutions, Prevention Institute develops tools and other materials to support the crafting, implementation, andevaluation of comprehensive prevention initiatives and effective coalitions. All of our tools, which include The
Spectrum of Prevention, Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide, and Evolution to Effective
Prevention, can be accessed free of charge at: http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tools.html.
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Please send your activities, programs and reports via post/ e-mail to the editor:************************************************************************************************************************************************Yousif Rahim
European Safe Community Network
E-mail: yousif.rahim@phs.ki.se

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