The programme covers the following safety promotion activities:

For the age group

Children 0-14 years:
Group meetings for parents to be;
8 group meetings for all parents after birth;
lending safety devices such as car safety craddles;
home safety check lists for the parents;
education at school by teachers, schoolnurse and dentist;
safety inspections at playgrounds by technicians and parents;
public meetings about child safety;
Exhibitions about child safety;
local newspaper articles about child safety;
child drawing expo concerning accidents;
parents patrolling the township during festivals etc;
traffic safety education in all schools for children 7-13 years;
pupils safety ombudsman in the schools;
free bike helmets for children 6 and 10 years of age and campaigning for using it;
accident prevention education for staff at the kindergartens and the school bus drivers; Education for all children in swimming;

Youth 15-24 years:
Representative from the adolescents at school in the accident prevention group
Information about snow mobile safety
Voluntary education for drivers licence for snowmobile age 15-16
Activating the youth in different activities as well as work to keep them occupied
Drug and alcohol policy for the community
Meeting facilities for the young people in the community
Youth Political Program taken by the Municipality
Education and Policymaking with the bar owners and dance establishments
Anti mobbing project going on
Lectures by several lecturers about mostly psychosocial health
Policies for the sports organisations
A "family life" project is planned for the 16 years old adolescents
Rules and education for skiing

Adults 25-64 years:
Mostly worked out by the Occupational Health organisation and the rehabilitation unit at the Health Center: Education, Inspection, Examination.
A program on suicide prevention
Mountain security
Traffic security for test drivers and tourists
Preparing the physical environment like streets and pavements
Working with the psychosocial health issue

Elderly 65+ years:
Done by the social service and the health center: education, safety inspection, helping aids
A special program for this age.

At the following environments:

Home: yes
Traffic: yes
Occupational: yes
School: yes
Sports: yes
Leisure: yes
Other: What?.Psychosocial Health and Suicide Prevention.

"Accidents" (non-intentional injuries) in the following injury areas:
Home
Playgrounds
Kindergarten
School
Working environment
Mountain security
Traffic and snowmobile driving
Leisure activities
Sport

Violence prevention (intentional injuries):
School and Kindergarten
Bars and Restaurants
Parents patrolling the streets when expected
Civil Courage

Suicide prevention (self-inflicted injuries):
Education
Studycircles
Public awareness stimulated

Programs aiming at "High risk-groups":
Infants
Schoolchildren
Adolescents
Families and their psychosocial behaviour
Snow mobile drivers
People at risk for suicide
Workers
Elderlies

Surveillance of injuries:
Where? At the health center, Dentists.
Numbers per year: Registered since 1990, average per year since 1994: 252. Probably 95-100% are now registered.
Population base: pop: 3650 plus approx 25% as tourists and testdrivers
Started year: 1990

Publications by Bo Henricson
1980 Paper presented at a WHO-meeting in Copenhagen: Health Education
from a General Practitioners point of wiev.
1983 Paper presented at a WHO-workshop in Höhr-Grenzhausen, W.
Germany: Selbsthilfe und Gesundheitsinformation. 1983 Article in "Landstingstidningen BD": Health Promotion, Self-care, the
Arjeplog Project.
1983 Article in "Läkartidningen" : Usefull Health Education in a rural
district.
1983 Paper presented at a WHO-workshop: So do I prevent illhealth among
elderly.
1983 Co-writer in the WHO-book: Self help and Health in Europe.
1984 Article in "Sjukhuset": Self care, what and why.
1985 Paper presented at the 12th World Conference on Health Education.
Published 1987.
1986 Paper presented at a WHO-workshop in Leuven. Belgium. Self-help
and professional support.
1988 Health Promotion, Oxford Press: The Arjeplog Project: Comprehensive
health promotion in a community.
1988 Allmänmedicin, Journal for swedish general practitioners: So do we
prevent illhealth in a rural community (swedish language)
1989 Sjukhuset: Teaching Health Promotion with focus on Future-shops
1989 Paper prepared for the XIV Conference in Gerontology: Self help - Self
Care, a new face in geriatrics.
1989 Paper prepared for the XIV Conference in Gerontology: Strenghtening
the autonomy of the elderly.
1990-93 Columnist in the monthly magazine Prima Liv, a national monthly
magazine about Health Promotion
1990 Several magazines: SPRILINE - a database about health promotion and
health education, situated in Arjeplog.
1990 Positive Health: Health care and the elderly in Northern Sweden.
1995 Report. The Arjeplog Model: Comprehensive Health Promotion in a
rural community
1996 Application for being a member of the WHO Network Safe Community
Arjeplog

Produced information material, pamphlets:
A few pamphlets and informationfolders has been produced locally on computer. Otherwise we use the material produced nationwide.

International commitments:
Study visits: From UCLA, USA; Galway, Ireland; Parkes, Australia; Maastricht, The Netherlands; Ankara, Turkey; Osaka, Japan; Bangkok, Thailand; Ottawa, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; plus a few more from Scandinavia.
Participation in Safe Community conferences: 1994 Stockholm and Luleå, 1995 Östersund, 1997 Borås
Hosting Safe Community Conferences: Not yet
Hosting "Travelling Seminars": Not yet
Other: Lectures all over Scandinavia, most European countries, USA, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, Japan
In average about 20 lectures has been given a year for the last 10 years, as well nationally as internationally, on conferences or due to local initiatives. These lectures have been concentrated on the Health Promotion Project going on in the Arjeplog District. Moreover, written material in English and Swedish has been distributed extensively to all interested persons or organizations.

Staff

1. Policymakers Group (6 persons)
Professions: Politicians, Social Director, Police, Director Health Center
Permanent: Yes since 1995

2. Community Health Council ( approx.10 persons)
Professions: Directors from the Municipality administration, Health Insurance, Employment Office and Health Center
Permanent: yes since 1994 by political decision
Organization: Coordinating and referring
Specific intersectoral leadership group: Yes

3. Working Group Accident Prevention (approx 10 persons)
Professions: Consumers Counsellor, Technical office, Health Center, Dentist, Police, School
Permanent: yes since 1991 by political decision
In this group the OFELIA function is incorporated

4. Working Group Psychosocial Health (approx 12 persons)
Professions: Politicians, Municipality officers, church, Police, Health Center, Youth Leaders, Alanon, Adult Studying Organisations
Permanent: yes since 1994 by political decision

5. Working Group Mountain Security (approx 8 persons)
Professions: Police, State government, Leisure Officers, Health Center, Army
Permanent: Yes since 1983 by political decision
Organization: General public health/health promotion group.

6. Working Group Occupational Health (5 persons)
Professions: Doctor, nurse, engineer, Physiotherapeut
Permanent: Yes since 1986
Organization: Private Company

7. Working Group Rehabilitation
Professions: Director Health Insurance and Director Health Center
Permanent: yes since 1995
Organization: Occupational Terapists and Physiotherapists. Officer from Health Insurance