EU Public Health Programme Strand 1: Improve information system Establish Working Parties: 1.Lifestyle and other health determinants 2.Morbidity 3.Health systems 4.Health and environment 5.Mental health 6.Accidents and injuries 7.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 European coalition for public health action on injury research and prevention Initiative of ECOSA

Objectives EuroSafe Exchange of information Facilitate partnering Produce statements Carry out joint projects

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

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

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