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The Melbourne declaration


Declaration
Injury is a threat to health in every country in the world and is currently responsible for 7% of world mortality!. This proportion is predicted to rise!. In high income countries, such as the United States of America, injury is the leading cause of premature death!. In many low income countries, such as India, injury is the leading cause of death and morbidity in the middle of the age spectrum (from age 4 or 5 years to 35 years and older)!. Injury deaths and trauma can be significantly reduced through a strategic mix of preventive measures: education, environmental and design changes, community and organisation-based action, regulation and enforcement!. Improved treatments and rehabilitation would also reduce the long term individual, social and economic burden of injury!.

The international injury prevention and control community call on global organisations, and governments together with industrial, commercial, labour, non-government organisations and the public that share responsibility for the safety of the citizens of the world to work partnership to:

allocate sufficient monetary and human resources to conduct research and implement strategies to reduce injury rates from all causes in all settings
establish in all countries a section within the most appropriate government ministry to provide the leadership, co-ordination and resources that are necessary to develop policies and programs which promote a culture of safety
establish national and regional networks for injury prevention policy and its implementation
provide resources to indigenous peoples to determine and implement programs to reduce the high incidence of injury among groups in their communities
involve government, trade, industry and labour in global action to reduce injuries that result from the manufacture and dumping of unsafe products and technologies, the manufacture of products in unsafe conditions and the exploitation of cheap and child labour
implement programs to reduce intentional injuries- suicide and attempted suicide, interpersonal violence and assaults with weapons, particularly guns and land mines
The international injury prevention and control community agrees to a world-wide partnership to act immediately on current knowledge to reduce injuries and the attendant social and economic costs by:

placing injury prevention and control higher on the agenda of the World Health Organization, the World Health Assembly, the United Nations, the World Bank and global trade, consumer safety and transport forums
creating world networks and coalitions which bring together the professions, sectors and disciplines for cooperative research and action to reduce injury at the community, national, regional and international levels, and the supporting technologies which facilitate the rapid transfer of data and information
securing a budget allocation for injury prevention and control from all governments
securing from trade, industry and labour the commitment and resources to create safer products and environments by technical solutions and organisational measures
establishing regional, national and international lead agencies and task forces with appropriate financial resources to co-ordinate and drive intersectoral injury prevention and control efforts
including the safety of the population in all strategic plans and operational activities at all levels in all organisations
improving the availability of accessible and linked data (which includes the cause of injury) and information on effective interventions and increasing research and development to assist the design of new interventions
Declared at the Final session of the Third International Conference on Injury Prevention and Control held in Melbourne, Australia, 18-22 February 1996

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There was a declaration after some CHOGM in Melbourne, and it featured in the British press for about two days!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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