Eurosafe Policy Briefings

Injuries are a neglected epidemic in the 53 countries of the WHO European Region accounting for 790,000 deaths each year which, to put this figure into perspective, this is more than half the population of Estonia. One in eleven of all deaths are due to injuries. The health care costs of treating injuries and the corresponding economic losses to society are enormous.

EuroSafe in partnership with the Regional office of the World Health Organisation has recently made available the first three of nine policy briefings which will be released over the next year. Two of the policy briefings which are particularly useful to this section of the website can be downloaded by clicking on the links below;

1: The role of public health in injury prevention

2: Developing national policy for injury prevention