Target Programme for the Prevention of Home and Leisure Accident Injuries 2014-2020
sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö
2014
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The coordination group for the prevention of home and leisure accident injuries has drawn up a proposal for a national target and action programme for the prevention of home and leisure accident injuries 2014–2020. The programme encompasses 92 actions, for each of which the coordination group has designated bodies responsible for them. In this programme, by home and leisure accident injuries is meant accident injuries other than those occurred at work or in traffic.
Accident injuries are a major public health and safety problem. The treatment of injuries and poisonings causes the second most inpatient periods in specialised medical care and fourth most in institutional care within primary health care. Accident injuries are the fourth most common cause of death. Annually about 2,800 Finns die accidentally. Almost 90 per cent of the deaths caused by accidents and more than 70 per cent of the accidents causing an injury occur at home and in leisure time. The most common type of accident is falling and tumbling. One third of the fatal accidents occur under the influence of alcohol.
As a result of the effective prevention work the number of traffic and occupational accident injuries has decreased in the long term. Favourable signs of the improved security level in society are for instance the reduced number of accident injuries to children and fires in residential houses. This favourable trend is also reflected in citizens’ increased security awareness. Intensifying the prevention of home and leisure accident injuries also contributes to furthering this trend.
According to the strategy of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health the problems caused by home and leisure accidents should be prevented more efficiently. Reduction of accident injuries has also been defined as the joint objective in the Government’s Internal Security Programme (2004, 2008 and 2012), which is drawn up for each government term in office, as well as in the relevant conclusions of the European Union and the World Health Organization.
The vision of the present national programme to prevent home and leisure accident injuries is that no one needs to die or be injured as a result of an accident. The objectives of the programme include reaching a good safety level in all environments, 25 % reduction in the number of serious accident injuries by 2025 and allocation of more substantial and permanent resources for accident injury prevention.
A successful prevention of accident injuries is based on long-term planning and implementation, where the combined effect of various measures is vital. The precondition for a more efficient prevention of home and leisure accident injuries is to increase the resources and to intensify the cooperation across sectors. The coordination group has defined the most important measures for the following sets of actions: improved safety culture and strengthened safety work, prevention of accident injuries related to the use of medicines, alcohol and drugs, increased equality and in particular improving the safety of vulnerable groups, improved environmental and product safety, and prevention of falling accidents. Specific objectives have been defined for each set of actions.
The coordination group for the prevention of home and leisure accident injuries is responsible for the implementation of the programme and its monitoring. It will assess the achievement of the objectives on a yearly basis and draw up a progress report in 2017. It is proposed that a Government Resolution on the matter be prepared on the basis of the programme.
Reports on the accident injury situation, costs, structures of prevention, relevant legislation and other national programmes related to the field have been attached to the programme.
Accident injuries are a major public health and safety problem. The treatment of injuries and poisonings causes the second most inpatient periods in specialised medical care and fourth most in institutional care within primary health care. Accident injuries are the fourth most common cause of death. Annually about 2,800 Finns die accidentally. Almost 90 per cent of the deaths caused by accidents and more than 70 per cent of the accidents causing an injury occur at home and in leisure time. The most common type of accident is falling and tumbling. One third of the fatal accidents occur under the influence of alcohol.
As a result of the effective prevention work the number of traffic and occupational accident injuries has decreased in the long term. Favourable signs of the improved security level in society are for instance the reduced number of accident injuries to children and fires in residential houses. This favourable trend is also reflected in citizens’ increased security awareness. Intensifying the prevention of home and leisure accident injuries also contributes to furthering this trend.
According to the strategy of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health the problems caused by home and leisure accidents should be prevented more efficiently. Reduction of accident injuries has also been defined as the joint objective in the Government’s Internal Security Programme (2004, 2008 and 2012), which is drawn up for each government term in office, as well as in the relevant conclusions of the European Union and the World Health Organization.
The vision of the present national programme to prevent home and leisure accident injuries is that no one needs to die or be injured as a result of an accident. The objectives of the programme include reaching a good safety level in all environments, 25 % reduction in the number of serious accident injuries by 2025 and allocation of more substantial and permanent resources for accident injury prevention.
A successful prevention of accident injuries is based on long-term planning and implementation, where the combined effect of various measures is vital. The precondition for a more efficient prevention of home and leisure accident injuries is to increase the resources and to intensify the cooperation across sectors. The coordination group has defined the most important measures for the following sets of actions: improved safety culture and strengthened safety work, prevention of accident injuries related to the use of medicines, alcohol and drugs, increased equality and in particular improving the safety of vulnerable groups, improved environmental and product safety, and prevention of falling accidents. Specific objectives have been defined for each set of actions.
The coordination group for the prevention of home and leisure accident injuries is responsible for the implementation of the programme and its monitoring. It will assess the achievement of the objectives on a yearly basis and draw up a progress report in 2017. It is proposed that a Government Resolution on the matter be prepared on the basis of the programme.
Reports on the accident injury situation, costs, structures of prevention, relevant legislation and other national programmes related to the field have been attached to the programme.