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Preventing injury and promoting safety in Europe: WHO/Europe and the European Commission (EC) joined forces to support countries' efforts

Two resolutions of the World Health Assembly and of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe have put injury prevention in the court of the health sector. The 2007 European Council Recommendation on the prevention of injury and the promotion of safety goes in the same direction.

With funds from the EC, WHO/Europe developed resources and tools to support national focal persons across the WHO European Region and to strengthen the capacity of health systems in developing national action plans and policies, and in monitoring implementation and reporting of national activities relevant to the Council Recommendation and the WHO Resolution EUR/RC55/R9.

WHO also facilitated the sharing of experiences in developing national action plans, advocacy and surveillance, and built capacity and mentoring in the key areas of action plans, surveillance and advocacy through workshops held for Baltic/Nordic countries and for central and southern European countries.

Project outcomes were presented in March 2010 at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, to members of the European Parliament, staff from WHO and the Commission, country representatives, focal persons and NGOs. They agreed that prevention of injuries and violence is a priority area in the European Union and the European Region, and acknowledged that the collaboration between WHO/Europe and the EC had been of benefit to all Member States in Europe.