Safe Communities

NSW Safe Communities Pilot Projects--evaluation methodology.

• develop and monitor measures of attitude and operational change, including: key informant– agency participation and participation change over the period of the project; changes in the incidence and form of local media knowledge and reporting; incorporation of the SafeComm project and/or its components into the business of local government; and level of integration of cross agency collaboratio...

Safe drinking water standards for First Nations communities.

Communities Creating Healthy Environments: improving access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color.

The childhood obesity epidemic is a public health crisis that is having a particularly detrimental effect in racial and ethnic populations and in low-income communities across the U.S. Nationally, among youth ages 2 to 19, over 39% of Black and Latino and approximately 60% of American Indian youth are overweight or obese (Dalenius et al., 2012). Of the more than 9 million children from low-inco...

Is Daycare Tonsillectomy Safe?

Introduction: Tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures performed by Ear, Nose, and Throat surgeon.  Usually, the procedure is carried out as an inpatient surgery. With the increasing need to reduce healthcare costs, spare precious hospital beds, and shorten elective surgery lists, there is currently a trend towards performing tonsillectomy on a daycare basis.  Materials and Methods: A...

The 'WHO Safe Communities' model for the prevention of injury in whole populations.

BACKGROUND The safe communities approach has been embraced around the world as a model for coordinating community efforts to enhance safety and reduce injury. Over 80 communities throughout the world have been formally designated as 'Safe Communities' by the World Health Organization. It is of public health interest to determine to what degree the model is successful, and whether its applicatio...