Strategies and best practices for the reduction of injuries (APOLLO)Intentional and unintentional injuries claim annually over 230000 lives of EU-25 citizens and represent the 3rd leading cause of death, with a standardized mortality rate of about 45 per 100 000 people per year. The age distribution is ~5000 (2%) among children (0-14 years) and ~95000 (41%) among elderly (65+ years), whereas the economically active age group of people sustains over 130000 (~57%) of the total mortality burden due to injuries. Initiated
by CEREPRI and run under the auspices of DG SANCO, the “Strategies And
Best Practices For The Reduction Of Injuries” (APOLLO) Project began
on December 2005 and will run for 3 years. This project is
the first concerted effort of this magnitude with over 25 experts within
the European Union. The
project aims to provide: (a) the evidence on the health and financial
burden of injuries and easily measurable indicators and (b)
recommendations on how to overcome the barriers in applying existing
best practices and efficient policies to decrease the most common
injuries in the EU member states with specification of success and
failure factors for implementation of injury prevention programs in all
age groups and all types of injuries. In addition, implementation
activities will focus on two high injury burden areas: (a) falls among
elderly and (b) injuries among vulnerable road users. Dissemination
activities include the creation of a scientific platform with input from
practitioners in the field, injury victims and policy makers as well as
the dissemination of results of all the work packages. Activities
under the projects heading are divided amongst six Work Packages. This
project aims to actively manage injuries at each level of this complex
public health problem. Similar to the structure followed in other
successful endeavours, the project will approach the prevention of
injuries at the overall policy level, apply the priorities and
strategies at the operational level and devote substantial resources to
communicate the results.
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