Khorrambid

Name of the community:

Khorambid

Country:

IRAN

Number of inhabitants

: 48,771

Programme started year:

2006

International Safe Communiti

es Network Membership:

Designation year: 2011

Full Application report:

http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/app

licationreports/265khorambid.pdf

Further information

:

Dr. Saeed Fazel

Khorambid Health Care Network

Vahdat blvd- Khorambid

73961-66657

Khorambid, Iran

Phone:

+987523521300-3

Fax:

+987523522901

Info address on web for the institution:

http://www.khorrambid.sums.ac.ir

Children 0-14 years:

1-

Epidemiological survey of injuries wi

thin this age group and setting the

priorities.

2-

Integrating the educational programs of safety principles in the health care

programs of children under 6 years.

3-

Executing program in order to promote the culture of safety within this age

group such as holding painting competitions concerning Safe road, safe

school and safe home.

4-

Planning to increase the knowledge of this age group about prevalent

accidents and injury- prevention in each of the age groups that

kindergartens’ children and primary schools students are educated.

5-

Executing the programmes of Hamyar-e police (police- cooperator) in

primary schools.

6- Asking police and public health staffs to attend schools for implementing

educational programmes.

Youth 15-24:

Epidemiological survey of injuries with

in this age group and setting priorities.

Since traffic accidents esp. motorcycle accidents have allocated a significant

share of injuries to themselves within this age group, therefore most activities

are focused on this programme which mainly includes:

Implementing research plans of “Determining the situation of safety among

cyclists" aiming at identifying the factors which cause injuries.

Mandatory programme of buying crash helmets when buying motorcycles.

Executing the programme of “prohibition of using motorcycles at schools”

Planning in order to implement educational programmes about safety principles

and traffic accident- prevention esp. for high school students

Enforcing special preparations by Traffi

c police about observing safe driving

speed, using crash helmets for cyclists

Implementing certain educational programmes for high school students through

holding Rescue courses and maneuvers.

Planning for filling leisure times of

this age group in summers aiming at

decreasing the use for motorcycles (according to the rising number of

motorcycle accidents in summers).

25-64 years:

Since this age group are active class of the society so analyzing the injuries of

this age group and setting the priorities

and subsequently intervening, has been

done based on the type of occupations.

1-Executing educational programmes aiming at promoting safety skills of

trauma- prevention esp. among workers, contractors and factory administrators

(According to high incidence of trauma in this group).

2- Educating 100% of workers about using self protection devices with the

collaboration of Labor & social affairs and Occupational health offices.

3- Implementing educational programm

es about traffic accident- Prevention

regarding the high incidence of car accident s in this age group aiming at

promoting safety skills.

4- Implementing educational programmes for 100% of taxi drivers and

drivers of schools & organizations' bus services.

Elderly 65+years:

-Epidemiological survey of injuries in this group.

- Integrating the education of safety principles in the Elderly health care

programme.

-Holding special educational programmes for health liaisons, expert volunteers

and health staffs in order to empower the elderly in order to decrease injuries in

this group.

- Educating CPR principles to a member of their families.

Homes:

1-

Analyzing the data of injuries at homes.

2-

Determining injuries caused by falls an

d trauma as the priorities of home

injuries.

3-

Completing the annual safety checklist of rural homes by Behvarzes(rural

health workers).

4-

Analyzing the completed checklists and determining safety problems at

homes.

5-

Planning for face to face

education of inhabitants during the completion of

checklists.

6- Educational planning and asking city councils and other organizations to

collaborate for removing safety problems of rural homes.

Traffic passages:

1-

Forming the committee for traffic accident – prevention.

2-

Identifying high – risk spots of urban and suburban passages

3-

Ranking high- risk spots in order to reform them.

4-

Raising safety problems of passages in the committee and pursuing in order

to remove them.

Occupational environments:

1-

Forming the special committee for oc

cupational injuries seasonally, by

presence of experts from Labor, Social welfare and Occupational health

offices.

2-

Convening monthly meetings of health care safety committee in

workplaces with more than 25 workers in order to prevent occupational

injuries.

3-

Planning for implementing educational programmes in labor environments

aiming at increasing safety skills in occupational environments considering

the type of occupations.

4-

Planning for paying constant visits to occupational environments in order

to determine unsafe items.

5-

Promoting the safety of occupational environments.

Schools:

1- Compiling the operational programme of safe- schools.

2- Surveying the situation of safety in 100% of the schools through checklists.

3- Analyzing the completed checklists and ranking unsafe items at schools.

4- Planning for educating more than 90% of students, teachers and principals

about safety issues.

5- Establishing intersectional harmony in

order to remove the unsafe priorities

of schools

Sports environments:

1-

Annual evaluation of the situation of safety in sports environments through

the checklist.

2-

Identifying present deficiencies and ranking them in order to be removed.

3-

Planning for implementing educational programmes aiming at promoting

safety skills especially for trainers, athletes and those who use sport

environments.

Leisure environments:

1-

Surveying the primary situation of safety in leisure environments through

the checklist.

2-

Analyzing the results in order to rank existing unsafe items and deciding to

remove them in the meetings of the working group.

3-

Providing consultative support about observing safety issues in sports

environments for contractors of the projects being built.

Violence – prevention:

1-

Establishing a free counseling centre in the health care network in order to

educate problem – solving skills to youths.

2- Identifying quarrelsome students and those having criminal records and

referring them to counseling centers.

3- Providing consultative support for parents of students with criminal records.

Suicide – prevention:

1-

Forming the suicide- prevention committee.

2-

Holding suicide – prevention workshops for staffs of the health care

network.

3-

Establishing a free counseling centre in the health care network for

providing consultative support and educating problem – solving skills to

youths.

4-

Referring suicide cases to the counseling center in order to be provided with

consultative support.

5- Providing consultative support for parents of those who have committed

suicide about communicational skills.

Programmes aiming at “high- risk group”

1- Cyclists are the high- risk group of the community by allocating the highest

incidence of injuries in youths to

themselves. There fore implementing

educational programmes enforcing traffic regulations more strictly and

increasing availability to crash helmets and implementing research

programmes are among those items being done for this age group.

Natural disasters:

A social semi-military movement which target cultural, military and

unforeseen disasters as an aid

Setting up Khorambid’s Disaster Center by the end

of 2009

Surveillance of injuries

:

Where:

1- Hospital and health care centers.

2- Emergency service

3- Legal medicine

4- Sabte-ahval office (Registration of personal status organization)

Number of injuries per year:

1098 in 1383

Population base

: 48,771

Started year

: 2006

Scientific publications

:

Home safety-school safety-kindergarten safety-accident prevention in children-

suicide prevention-occupational safety-animal attack

Produced information materials and research:

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