Transcript Dr. Etienne Krug

Injuries and violence:
new initiatives
Etienne Krug
Director, Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability
World Health Organization
New initiatives
 Decade of action on road safety: 2011-2020
 Child injury prevention
 Child maltreatment prevention
 Trauma care
Decade of action on road safety: 2011-2020
Decade of action on road safety: 2011-2020
Child injury prevention
Child injury prevention
 Continued roll out of World Report
 Regional and national launches
 Policy discussions in international
political fora
 Partnerships
 Supporting countries to set up
prevention and services
Child maltreatment
 "Working together for a Safer
Childhood" 3rd ISPCAN Arab
Conference on Child Abuse and
Neglect, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1-4
March 2009
 Saudi "National Family Safety
Programme"
 Example: Child protection centre in
Jordan "Dar Al Aman" or "House of
Security". "Child maltreatment
comes out of the shadows" Bulletin
of World Health Organization, May
2009.
Child maltreatment: planned multi-country child
maltreatment prevention project
 WHO and partners
 Reduce child maltreatment and life-long
negative consequences
 5-10 low- and middle-income countries
– Capacity development
– National policy and programmes
– Child maltreatment monitoring
– Outcome evaluation
 Reduced child maltreatment
– Enhanced child development
– Enhanced academic performance
– Improved life-long health
 Resource mobilization underway
"The 2006 WHO report on prevention of child maltreatment drew attention to the need for this topic to
achieve the prominence and investment in prevention and epidemiological monitoring that is given to
other serious public-health concerns with lifelong consequences affecting children" (Gilbert et al,
Lancet, 3 December, 2008).
Trauma care: EMRO successes
 Many centres of excellence and success stories
in EMRO.
– Qatar: Well organized trauma unit at Hamad
General Hospital
– Oman: Leader in orthopaedic care
– Pakistan: Emergency services at Aga Khan in
Karachi.
– Many other examples.
 However, there is a lack of
– Global coordination and leadership
– Widespread uptake of trauma care
Trauma care: global initiative to scale up
Preparations for a large scale global trauma care initiative:
 Global Forum - increase political will.
– Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – October, 2009
 High level policy discussions
 Robust country support programme
– As with HIV/AIDS, malaria, essential medicines, and others
 Looking for
– Champions
– Political support
– Funding.
For all of these initiatives
 Champions
 Technical collaboration
 Political support
 Funding.
Thank you !
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