{"title":"Conference report: The 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Tampere, Finland","authors":"Nick Malherbe","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V14I2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The biennial World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion hosts a range of oral and poster presentations on numerous disciplines, including: epidemiology, preventive medicine, public health, social and behavioural sciences, as well as social and economic medicine. In 2016, the 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion was held in Tampere, Finland between 18 and 21 September. The conference was hosted by the National Institute for Health and Welfare, cosponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), and supported by the Government of Finland and Bloomberg Philanthropies. The conference theme “from research to implementation” emphasised the importance of connecting knowledge around violence with injury prevention, while stressing the need to address the multitude of transnational public health challenges. In speaking to this theme, the Tampere Declaration - that is, the key conference outcome - expresses a commitment to global injury prevention and safety promotion.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"11 1","pages":"24-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"African Safety Promotion","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V14I2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The biennial World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion hosts a range of oral and poster presentations on numerous disciplines, including: epidemiology, preventive medicine, public health, social and behavioural sciences, as well as social and economic medicine. In 2016, the 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion was held in Tampere, Finland between 18 and 21 September. The conference was hosted by the National Institute for Health and Welfare, cosponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), and supported by the Government of Finland and Bloomberg Philanthropies. The conference theme “from research to implementation” emphasised the importance of connecting knowledge around violence with injury prevention, while stressing the need to address the multitude of transnational public health challenges. In speaking to this theme, the Tampere Declaration - that is, the key conference outcome - expresses a commitment to global injury prevention and safety promotion.
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