KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET

WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE

Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine

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COMMUNITY SAFETY PROMOTIONSAFE COMMUNITY WEEKLY NEWS No. 15August 2005******* LETTER FROM THE EDITOR*********
Welcome to the fifteenth 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:

INVITATION: Four Communities in Taiwan will be designated as Safe Communities
CONFERENCE: 3rd Asian Regional Conference on Safe Communities, Taiwan
CONFERENCE: Pre-event of the First European Conference on IP and SP, Greece
CONFERENCE: 8th World Conference on IP and SP, South Africa
CONFERENCE: Fifth Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention; Chile
COURSE: Ph.D. Course on Research in Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion**************************************************************************

Four Communities in Taiwan will be designated as Safe Communities!
In the year 2005, four communities will be appointed by WHO Collaborating Centre on Community
Safety Promotion as Safe Communities in Taiwan. Alishan, Dungshr, Fongbin and Neihu
communities are the four communities which have made a great effort on promoting Community
Safety and been evaluated with positive resultes. The thrilling outcomes encouraged othercommunities to get involved in Safe Community Movement. Each of four communities represents aparticular feature of communities in Taiwan: Alishan (South) – an aboriginal community in mountainareas, Dungshr (Central) – an rural community, Fongbin (East) – an aboriginal community in littorals
and Neihu (North) – an urban community.

The official designation ceremony will take place in the 3rd Asian Regional Conference
on Safe Communities on 21st October 2005. Welcome to join us!
Alishan community mainly focuses on:
1. Injury Registration Mechanism
2. Traffic Safety in mountain areas
3. Home Safety
4. Occupational Safety
5. School Safety
6. Tourism Safety in mountain areas

Dungshr community mainly focuses on:
1. Injury Surveillance
2. Home Safety
3. Agricultural Safety
4. Road Safety
5. School Safety
6. Tourism Safety
7. Violence and Suicide Prevention
8. Health Care Safety

Fongbin community mainly focuses on:
1. School Safety
2. Water Safety
3. Elderly Safety at homes
4. Road and Tourism Safety in littorals
5. Flood Prevention and Control
6. Foreign Spouses Safety

Neihu community mainly focuses on:
1. Disasters Prevention and Rescue
2. Traffic Safety
3. Home Safety
4. School Safety
5. Shopping and Work Places Safety
6. Leisure Time and Sports Safety
7. Violence and Suicide Prevention

3rd Asian Regional Conference on Safe Community

www.safe2005.com.tw■	Date19th ~22nd October, 2005

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Theme
Creating Safe Communities in Asian Context■	Conference Secretariat
Ms. Zoe Chang (Elite Professional Conference Organizer)
Tel: + 886-2-2504-4338

Fax: + 886-2-2504-4362

Email: zoe329@elitepco.com.tw

Department of Hygiene & Epidemiology
University of Athens

CEREPRI
Center for Research and Prevention of Injuries

Secretariat of the Working Party on Accidents and Injuries
It is a great pleasure to invite you to the Pre-event of the First European Conference on Injury Prevention
and Safety Promotion. This event will be held at the Malaconda Hotel, in Eretria, Greece from September 29 toOctober 1, 2005. The Working Party on Accidents and Injuries (WP-AI) is delighted to be hosting this event incollaboration with DG SANCO of the European Commission and with the co-sponsorship of the World HealthOrganisation Regional Office for Europe. This conference will also be the pre-event of the First European
Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, to be convened in 2006.
Aim of the Pre-event
The key aim of the conference is to enhance and strengthen the active participation of the new Member States(MS) and candidate countries (Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey) towards the reduction of injuries in view of theFirst European Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. In addition, it will provide a platform forexchange and discussion on injury prevention actions initiated over the years by the Commission, WP-AI experts
and other relevant organisations as well as encourage ongoing cooperation between all EU Member States,
EFTAA-EEA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and interested stakeholders.
The Pre-event seeks to attract a European audience spanning a wide spectrum of disciplines and interests in
Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion and will focus on three major pillars in injury prevention: 1) Towards
developing information systems on injuries; 2) Addressing the top priority areas in injuries; 3)
Implementing prevention strategies in Member States. The scientific program of this event will offer
participants innovative topics with plenary sessions, workshops, oral presentations and poster sessions
Vision and Priorities of the WP-AI
The vision of the Working Party on Accidents and Injuries is: To reduce all types of injuries year upon year toensure that the EU is a safe place. To achieve this all MS need to acknowledge the problem and place it on theirpolitical agenda. In addition, they need to ensure that the key principles will be incorporated into their national
injury prevention strategic plans. This event provides an opportunity for all to world together towards this commongoal.
The Working Party carries out injury prevention concerted actions, in the framework of the Public Health
Programme (2003-2008) of the Commission, in line with the strategic document "Actions for a Safer Europe",
which will be presented during the conference.
We look forward to your participation in what promises to be an exciting and invaluable event for preparing thegrounds to the first European Conference and to meeting you in Greece during the warm month of September.
WP-AI Secretariat
Please visit http://www.cc.uoa.gr/health/socmed/hygien/pre_event/ for more information about the event, registration andwork shops or contact us: preevent@med.uoa.gr

Call for Abstracts
8th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
2-5 April, 2006
ICC, Durban
Abstracts can only be submitted on-line at www.safety2006.info
They must reach the organisers by 31 August 2005.
Abstracts are invited on the themes indicated below.
Violence Prevention Track
Safe Communities Track••••••••••

Youth ViolenceChild abuse and neglect
Intimate partner violence
Elder abuse and neglect
Sexual violenceCollective violence
Violence and the substance abuse
Suicide prevention
Attempted suicide
At-risk groups and social
determinants of violence and peace•

Cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary
approaches to community safety
Intervention costing and evaluation
Safety and peace promotion and social
movements
Indigenous perspectives to safe
communities•••

Trauma Management, Rehabilitation
and Disaster Management Track

Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Disciplinary
Linkages Track

Medical and psychosocial trauma
care systems
Clinical care and case management
Rehabilitation models andtechnologies
Traumatology
Pre-hospital care
Disaster preparedness and civil
protection

Social, economic and political
determinants of injury
Cross–sectoral and multidisciplinary
strategies for injury prevention andsafety promotion
Indigenous knowledge and faithbased systems of injury prevention
and safety promotion
Social activism and science in injury
prevention
Establishing a global culture ofsafety and human rights
The role of the media in conflict,peace promotion and reconciliation••••••••••••
Road Safety Track•••••••

Human factor risks (e.g. road rageand substance abuse)
Vulnerable road users
Urbanisation, traffic technology andsocial development
Intelligent transportation systems,
ergonomics, safer vehicle design
Public transportation safety
Biomechanics
Equity in transportation planning anddesign

Workplace, Institutional and Home
Safety Track•

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Training, management and injury
intervention
Industrial technologies & prevention
Child labour and injuries
Workplace emergency and healthcare services
Farm injuries
Workplace violenceHome-based falls, burns, drowningand poisoning
Prevention of home-based injury in
the elderly, children and vulnerable

Leisure, Sport and Product RelatedSafety Track••••••

Sports injuries, management care
Police, security agencies and stadium
safetySports events, management andsafety
Legislation, regulatory warnings,education, regulated safety standards
and product design
Promoting the safe use of productsChild safety and water safety

Data Production and Consumption
Track••••••

Surveillance, epidemiology andcosting
The research-practice-policy nexus
Philosophy and applicability ofcross-national surveillance systems
Context, content, actor and process
factors in translating data to action
Globalisation, global health andinjury prevention policies
Formulating strategies for optimisingdata uptake and dissemination

Contact Details
Conference Secretariat
Tel: +27 (0) 12 481 2094
Fax: +27 (0) 12 481 2133
Email: sec@safety2006.info
Website: www.safety2006.info…………………………………………………………………………..…………………….

Fifth Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention 27-28 October 2005 Santiago, Chile Organised by the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime and the Ministry of theInterior of Chile.

A major theme of the Colloquium will be the roles of the private sector in crime prevention
and urban safety, and the importance of building coalitions and national partnership inplanning prevention policies and actions.
For more information please contact:
Jocelyne Latour
Executive Assistant, ICPCEmail: cipc@crim-prevention-intl.org
Website: www.crime-prevention-int.org

2nd International Course - A Ph.D. Course Research in Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion 23 January - 24 February 2006 

Stockholm, Sweden 

Application deadline: 1 October 2005
Course informationwww.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/Courses%202005%202006/Research_in_Injury_Prevention_&_Safety_Promotion_2006%20PhD%20Course.pdf
Application form
www.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/Courses%202005%202006/Application_form_PhD_Course_Safety_P
romotion_2006.pdf
For further information:
moa.sundstrom@sll.se
Phone: +46 8 737 38 70
Fax: +46 8 33 46 93
Note! Scholarships
The Karolinska Institutet has no scholarships to offer.
We advice you to contact: http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/who_scholarships_en.htm

Please send your activities, programs and reports via post/ e-mail to the editor:************************************************************************************************************************************************Yousif Rahim
European Safe Community NetworkE-mail: yousif.rahim@phs.ki.se

http://www.phs.kise/csp
http://www.safecommunity.net/*************************************************************************************************************************************************