International Safe Community Certifying Centre -a NGO

Chair Leif Svanström General manager Guldbrand Skjönberg May 2014 International Safe Community Certifying Centre

The International Safe Community Movement Safer than Ever Leif Svanström* Chair International Safe Community Certifying Centre And Department of Public Health Sciences Karolinska Institutet Stockholm Sweden

The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, that measures the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 165 are United Nations member states.

The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, the index categorizes countries as one of four regime types full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes and authoritarian regimes.

Type of regimeScoresNumber of countries% of countries % of world population Full democracies 8.0 to Flawed democracies 6.0 to Hybrid regimes 4.0 to Authoritarian regimes 0 to

The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, the index categorizes countries as one of four regime types full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes and authoritarian regimes. Homic Suic Intent Fire-arm Traffic

Rank Country Score Category Homic Suic Intent Fire-arm Traffic 49 Indonesia 6.95 Flawed democracy Croatia 6.93 Flawed democracy Hungary 6.90 Flawed democracy Argentina 6.84 Flawed democracy Suriname 6.77 Flawed democracy Philippines 6.77 Flawed democracy Bulgaria 6.73 Flawed democracy Serbia 6.71 Flawed democracy Romania 6.68 Flawed democracy Mexico 6.68 Flawed democracy

Rank Country Score Category Homic Suic Int Fire-arm Traffic 85 Bangladesh 5.78 Hybrid regime Tanzania 5.77 Hybrid regime Sri Lanka 5.69 Hybrid regime Albania 5.67 Hybrid regime Malawi 5.66 Hybrid regime Benin 5.65 Hybrid regime Fiji 5.61 Hybrid regime Ukraine 5.42 Hybrid regime , Thailand 5.39 Hybrid regime Nicaragua 5.32 Hybrid regime Kyrgyzstan 5.24 Hybrid regime

Rank Country Score Category Homic Suic Int Fire-arm Traffic 157 Laos 2.21 Authoritarian regime Iran 1.98 Authoritarian regime Guinea-Bissau 1.93 Authoritarian regime Turkmenistan 1.83 Authoritarian regime Saudi Arabia 1.82 Authoritarian regime Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.75 Authoritarian regime Syria 1.74 Authoritarian regime Equatorial Guinea 1.66 Authoritarian regime Chad 1.50 Authoritarian regime Central African Republic 1.49 Authoritarian regime North Korea 1.08 Authoritarian regime

RANK COUNTRY INDEX CATEGORY 2 Sweden 9.73 Full democracy Homic Suic Intent Fire-arm Traffic USA 8.11 Full democracy Japan 8.08 Full democracy S Korea 8.06 Full democracy India 7.92 Flawed democ S Africa 7.82 Flawed democ Chile 7.80 Flawed democ Brazil 7.38 Flawed democ Cuba 3.52 Authorit.regime Russia " China "

According to the estimate of the World Health Organization’s Global Burden of Disease Study, unintentional injuries resulted in more than 3.9 million deaths in Among the years old of age group, road traffic injuries, drownings, burns, poisonings, falls and other unintentional injuries accounted for top five of the 15 leading causes of death

DO SOMETHING !!!!!!!! TOP DOWN THE WHO MUST ALERT THE MEMBER STATES! BOTTOM UP THE SAFE COMMUNITY MOVEMENT !

The co-operation between WHO and the Safe Community Movement started in 1986 and began its formal existence at the First World Conference on Accident and Injury Prevention held in Stockholm, Sweden in September 1989.

In the Manifesto for Safe Communities, the resolution of the conference 1989 stated that the International Safe Community movement should work with “WHO Health for all” as a vision.

The ground pillars in the Stockholm manifesto are: All human beings have an equal right to health and safety Accident and injury prevention requires coordinated action by many groups

Health sector have a crucial role in collecting information on injured people, injury patterns, causes of injuries and hazard situations Local programs must include all citizens and focus on the most vulnerable

Evaluation both of the process and outcome of a safety promotion program is important An international development work for safe communities is necessary!

In an International Safe Community, the community itself plays the leading role. The term Safe Community implies that the community work for increased safety in a structured approach, not that the community is already perfectly safe.

Creative methods of education, physical planning and environmental change joined with appropriate regulations and enforcement are an important beginning for the safety of a community.

An International Safe Community use the traditional means of control such such as economic, regulations and governing by objectives and visions. No single approach is sufficient for changing existing behaviour patterns. Heightening of public awareness is also very important.

While the movement was growing started a quality management programme leading to a peer review system where the leading communities (now about 360) were labelled International Safe Communities.

Communities Australia Austria Bosnia and Herzegovina Canada Chile China China (Province of Taiwan) China, Hong-Kong Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland Germany Iran (Islamic Republic of) Ireland Israel Japan Mexico New Zealand Norway Peru Poland Republic of Korea Serbia South Africa Sweden Thailand Turkey United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United States of America Vietnam

AFTER FOUR DECADES OF DEVELOPMENT; AND 25-50% DECREASE OF INJURIES AND A COMPLETE NEW ORGANISATION (THE NGO OF ISCCC) SAFE COMMUNITIES MOVEMENT – SAFER THAN EVER !!!!