Division 3.3.5.2 Council Recommendations on Prevention of injury and promotion of safety

Maintaining (data check, reporting), promoting (training, start-up support), expanding (to thirty-two countries) and enhancing the IDB system into a sustainable part of the health statistic system. This includes completing the development of the IDB into an all injury data base with information on products and service safety and harmonizing injury data collection systems such as incidence and mortality statistics, hospital discharge registers and accidents and emergency based surveillance systems, including statistical coding systems for external causes of accidents and injuries, in view of providing a comprehensive basis for Community injury statistics and for the Community health indicators on injuries. [Financing mechanism: Call for proposals]

Injury prevention as a major action priority within national health promotion programmes. [Financing mechanism: Call for proposals]

Integrating injury prevention in curricula for vocational training of local health service providers, teachers, sport coaches, product designers and urban planners. [Financing mechanism: Call for proposals]