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Seminar on Friday, October 24, 2008
October 24, 2008 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Seminar : Prevention of Child Injury
January 25, 2009 – 8:29am
| Full Title: | PRECISE – Prevention of Child Injury through Social-intervention and Education |
| Speaker: | A.K.M. Fazlur Rahman, PhD |
| Date/Time: | Friday, October 24, 2008, 12PM |
| Venue: | ISRT Seminar Room |
ABSTRACT
Thirty thousand children a year die from preventable injuries, including serious cuts and burns, drowning, road traffic accidents and falls. The Prevention of Child Injury through Social-intervention and Education (PRECISE) is the largest child injury intervention programme ever initiated in a developing country. The goal of the project is the reduce child and parental mortalities, morbidities and disabilities due to injury by implementing comprehensive prevention programmes that can be reproduced in a cost effective manner. PRECISE is currently implemented in three rural areas, with an additional one urban control area covering a total population of 800,000. This population is monitored using CIPRB’s unique Injury Surveillance System which records changes in injury patterns. This is a critical monitoring tool of the project.
The programme’s main components include:
- Survival swimming lessons for children
- Crèches to provide a safe, nurturing environment for children (the crèches are run during the hours of the day when most accidents occur)
- A Home Safety Programme to create safe homes by removing physical hazards
- A School Safety Programme to educate school children about injury prevention
