ESCON strategies
Most European countries have the agencies needed for Safe Community work, a health service capable of providing injury data, the institutions (public and private) for making multi-disciplinary and cross-sector cooperation and the academic strength for aiding with planning of evaluations that have external validity. There is a formidable pedagogic challenge for motivating and convincing European countries that bottom up strategies in local communities may succeed where top-down as stand-alone measures have a tendency to fail.
A suggested strategy of European Safe Community promotion:
- Through a broader contact and collaboration with existing European agencies (WHO Europe and Euro Safe), advocating Safe Community practices as being supplementary to existing top-down strategies
- Dissemination of knowledge on the efficacy of existing Safe Community programs to European local community leaders, politicians and academics
- Revitalization and strengthening efforts for initiating and implementing research projects on community-based injury prevention
Contact us
Mirjana Milankov
Phone: + 381 65 83 93 111
Email: drmirjana.milankov@gmail.com
Address
Editor ESCON websiteBørge Ytterstad
Stornesvegen 18
9402 Harstad
Norway
email: boergey@online.no