Safe Community District 22 of the Tehran Municipality

The Olympic Square of the district 22 of the Tehran Municipality

Country: IR Iran
Number of inhabitants: 133,000
Programme started year: 2006
International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year: 27 April 2009

Full Application report:

The district 22 of the Tehran mega city is situated at the attitude of 1400-1800 meter from the sea level, surrounded by the Alborz mountain from the north, Karaj-Tehran motorway from the south, the Can river from the east and the Karaj city from the west. According to the latest censes its population is about 108674 inhabitants, occupies about 29017 households which is scattered in 1000 acres through out the district. Male & Female ratio is 57/43 percent, the population is young and the literacy rate is more than 99%. The life expectancy is 68 years for males and 70years for females. The district is unique in terms of green area per capita which is about 272 square meter, low population density, calm traffic movement, green belt area of Tehran which is known as clean air arena of Tehran with many forest area and recreational sites. District 22 has been designated as a ISO 14001 standard for the last 4 years. The most important killers of the district are: cardio vascular disorders, Injuries & cancers. Among injuries, traffic related deaths, falls from height or same level, burns & disasters are the most common cause of disabilities and deaths.

Many initiatives have been taken place at the community level with the aim to promote safety and prevent injuries. In the other hand the district's safecommunity committee has been formed so far.

For further information contact:

Eng. H.Karimian, The Mayor of Dist.22
Head of Safe Community Committee
District 22
Tehran Municipality
Tehran, IR Iran
Tel: +982144709791, Fax:+982144702974

Eng. Majid Haji Abdolmajid
Safe Community Secretary and Coordinator
District 22, Tehran, IR Iran
Phone: +982144751776
Fax: +9821 44717139
Cell: +989191201757
E-mail:mj_hajiabdolmajid@yahoo.com

www.safecommunity.Tehran.ir

The program covers the following safety promotion activities:

For the age group

Children 0-14 years:
Traffic injury, School safety, Leisure time safety and Home safety

A group of volunteers children along with their parents aged below 14 years of age are actively involved in district 22 safe community, the task of this group is to look raising awareness about safety and attract advocacy at the different places including home , school, leisure time and traffic safety. A part of these kids welcoming the representatives from collaborating center for safety promotion at Karolinska institute for the site visit.

Youth 15-24 years:
Traffic, sports and leisure.

Adults 25-64 years:
Social harm ness, Traffic, Leisure, Occupational.

Elderly 65+ years:
Home related injuries, Traffic.

At the following environments:

Home:
-Training of volunteers neighboring hood women for raising awareness about the safety at home for all the members targeting house wives for burn and elderlies and children for fall related injuries.

-Inspection of selected houses for hazards of involvement of households for the CO poisoning by the experts.

-Insurance coverage for burn for each and every house at the district sent.

-Educating house holds for potential hazards by pamphlets, Banners and booklets.

-Complete the checklist of home related injuries by the householders.

Traffic:

-Prevention of traffic related accidents for all age group, both sexes and all road user situations with highly consideration of pedestrians is well developed among the stake holders at the district.

- More traffic law enforcement by police including vehicle inspection.

- A pilot project for the self reporting of any potential hazardous location at traffic places by citizens.

- Putting many warning sentences on billboards and banners all over the districts with safecommunity emblem.

- Re determination of high risk areas by police department and reporting to the safecommunity committee.

- Involvement of NGOs for raising awareness among the population and attracting advocacy among stake holders.

-Activities to promote safe cycling is more highlighted by lunching safe cycling campaign including 1000 cyclists in uniform dress and helmet messaging for safety under the safecommunity emblem.

School:
- periodic safety check list to detect hot spots at the schools with focus on fall at the same or different level prevention among the children.

- Determination of hot spots at the schools.

- Empowerment of school principles for data gathering and use as implementation for evidence based interventions

- Budget allocation to remove hot points upon evidences at each school independently.

- Posing workshop for schools' staff to complete safety checklists to develop school injury surveillance.

- Earthquakes maneuver on children in schools.

Sport and Leisure time:
-To some extend it is integrated with the leisure time safety activities (since the dist22 is the one of the pole for cycling). It is focused on promotion of helmet usage among the cyclists.

- Determination of the hot spots by the use of an standard safety check list in Parks and sport grounds.

- To repair or change the play ground tools.

- To establish an emergency care unit including an ambulance with trained staff by the red crescent society inside the Chitgar area.

-Special emphasis made on promoting safe cycling among women with focus on young girls.

-Special attention made on leisure time safety with emphasis on to prevent fall among children and elderlies of both sexes specially in winter time..

- Drug abuse prevention program is the most highlighted activities among the youngsters in this respect special camps have been made by NGO named “Tavallodi digar”(means “another birth”) to treat and give them support.

Occupational:
-district22 is the most growing area with high development of building construction .

- Program aiming safety among the workers who are working on building construction and people who are passing is developed.

- Mandatory insurance coverage for the constructors

- Regular inspection for safety devices used for buildings.

Violence prevention:
-Social harmness prevention and harm reduction program for young adult of both sexes

- Prevention of street violence at the public areas by educating youngsters with the help of NGO mostly “Hamshahraki “NGO.

- Developing a help number for reporting any domestic violence including violence against children.

- Promoting education among the schools' health staff for prevention of school based violence program.

Suicide prevention:
-Drug prevention and violence prevention against women program.

-Parental support program by use of volunteers.

-Developing a network of active NGOs to promote hopefulness and better lifestyle among eachother.

Natural disaster:
-Preparedness and responses to the earthquakes for school age children.

-Preparedness and responses to the earthquakes for public.

  -First Aid Training for house wives.

-Educating public for preparing a disaster package.

- Establishing a center to operate at the time of disaster. This center equipped with commander shelter, medical care, emergency needs and etc.

Others:
-Mapping of high risk areas (hot spots) with the help of GIS-technique. (Geographic Information System).

-Meetings to develop advocacy among the stake holders.

-First Aid training to the population.

-Participating in city exhibitions

-Posing variety of training workshop for high risk groups such as elderlies and women.

-Involvement with the city exhibition, meeting with elderlies and the women organizations active in district 22

Surveillance of injuries:
-Registration in health centers, EMS center, Police stations, fire fighting and rescue centers.

-At local hospital there is a continuous all injury recording based on ICD10 system developed by the injury prevention department at the ministry of health on 2005. All injuries treated in outpatient and in-patient are recorded.

-Home based surveillance started on 2007 and every other years will be evaluated by the same way.

-The gaps between data registry by different care delivery centers including relevant NGOs revealed. To over come this, all organizations agreed to revised their registration forms.

-Volunteers report based survey, started on 2007

-Field surveillance to determine the hot points by experts all over the district area

Numbers per year: about 5,200 (2007)

Population base: 133,000

-Field surveillance to determine hot points

(The sample card prepared for involvements of volunteers for injury report is available in the full application or on request).

Programs aiming at "high risk groups":
Prevention of school related injuries emphasis on fall, traffic injury prevention on roads traveling from home to school and vice versa and also disaster harm prevention for primary school children. Bicycling related injuries with emphasis on brain damage and provocation of crush helmet usage targeting adolescent bicyclists (helmet promotion).

Cycling on Cycle tract at Chitgar Park aiming helmet use promotion targeting children and adolescents at the 1000 BiCycler campaign

-Earthquakes preparedness maneuver to the children and adolescents

- One day work shops on school injury surveillance and prevention for the schools officials and NGOs

A form sent to the house holds for educating the families and gathering data on injuries from the house holds to practice self reporting .

The free fire insurance certificate for every house has been issued and all relevant documents sent to the house holders along with a pre made injury registration form including instruction to fill up. The insurance will be activated once the completed form received by the safecommunity committee at the district22.

Surveillance of injuries:
At the emergency rooms in local health care centers, EMS centers, fire fighting and police stations all called and refereed injuries treated outpatient and in-patient are recorded based on ICD10. home based and volunteer based surveillance are the new issues in district 22 toward establishing surveillance system.
Started year: June 2007

Proportion of Injury by the place of occurrence

Staff

Number: 8 persons
Professions: part time and full time

Organization:
Tehran Municipality Headed by: Dr. MB Ghalibaf, the mayor of Tehran .

Tehran Safe Community council for policy and planning Headed by: Dr. H.Moazzen, the special representative from the mayor of Tehran and the head. Representatives from: Education Department, Roads & Transportation Department, Police, Health & Care Network Municipality, Welfare Organization, Hospital, Telecommunication Co., Electric Co., Water Co., Gas Co., and Fire Station, Safe Community expert and the NGOs.

Safe Community Committee at the District 22:

Head: Eng. H. Karimian, the Mayor;
Secretary: Eng M. Hajabdolmajid;
Advisor: Dr. AR Moghisi, MD, MPH, MD, Fellow PhD

Members:
Representatives from: Health sector, Police department, education department, EMS and other rescue services, Fire fighting Department, Red Crescent society, experts and active NGOs.

Safe Community Steering Committee:
This committee has been built for policy making and planning at the district, all the papers before getting approved by the Mayor, it has to be declared by this committee. The members are appointed by the Mayor and the head of the Safe Community at the district level. They are: Dr. AS Farshd, Mr. A.Shams, Dr. AR Moghisi, Eng.M.Hajabdolmajid , Eng. A. Barati, Dr. Rahimi

Site visit followed by the Press conference with Dr. Bo. Henrocson, Dr. Mohammadi, Mayor Karimian, Dr. Farshad and Dr. Moghisi on 2008.

International commitments:
Study visits: 2 times- Dr. Robert Ekman –Dr. Bo Henricson, Dr. Gunnar Horte, Dr. Diana Ekman and Dr Reza Mohammadi.

Participation in Safe Community conferences:
-Hosting Designation ceremony for Kashmar at The 16 International Conference on Safe Communities Tehran 2007.
-Hosting National Safe Community Conferences, Tehran 2008.

Publications:
-Pamphlets aiming youngsters for safety promotion at the public places, schools and during cycling.

-Educating public for developing safecommunity with the help of Banner all around the district.

-A fixed column of the Hamshahri news paper has been assigned for the Safe Community news at the District 22.

A sample Pamphlets and Banners to educating the public is available on the site

Publication under preparation:
An agreement to developed a group of 9 guide books for the Safe Community has been

Signed and the authors for each book has been assigned. These books are going to be published

Bilingually for the use of other districts in Tehran by the end of the 2009.

They are as follows:
-Guide line to approach the Safe Community philosophy.

-Guide line for developing an action planning.

-Guide line for data gathering and establishing a surveillance system.

-Guide line for reporting and corresponding to the international agencies leading the Safe Community movement.

-Guide line for calculating cost-effectiveness in Safe Communities.

-Guide line for capacity building among the stake holders and population.

-Teaching curriculum for managers and experts in safe communities.

-Guide line for developing indices for monitoring and evaluation in Safe Communities.

-Guide line for methods of fund raising in Safe Communities.