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Name of the Community: Denmark
Country: Australia
Number of inhabitants: 4,500
Programme started year: 1994
International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year: year: 2000
The programme covers the following safety promotion activities:
For the age group
Children 0-14 years:
- Primary health education – antenatal and postnatal.
0-6 child health;
- Safety rules ok – school children;
Competitions annually for eye safety and bike safety;
- Sports injury prevention with all school based sport and recreation;
- Kidsafe program;
- Health promoting school program;
- First aid courses for year 7 students
Youth 15-24 years:
- Youth advisory committee to local government;
- Condom Vending machine;
- Alcohol accord;
- Youth "at risk" program;
- Youth house;
- Youth mentoring program;
- Structural change in community through hazzard audits of roads,parks,playgrounds etc.
Adults 25-64 years:
- Sports injury prevention-coaches and umpires accredited;
- Alcohol accord-focus on family based entertainment with minimal alcohol;
- Road safety program;
- Beach and coastal safety-develop awareness of risks for tourists;
- Structural changes to tourist destinations to prevent injury;
- Farm safety program.
Elderly 65+ years:
- Stay on your feet program;
- Training in injury prevention for all carers and health care workers;
- Structural changes to the roads, footpaths and access points around town for the elderly
and disabled.
At the following environments:
Home:
- One to one audits of homes of people over 65;
- Education programs for people to identify their own hazzards;
- Visit by occupational therapist to people with arthritis-assess;
- Activities of daily living to prevent joint injury;
- Child health nurse visits and includes education on injury prevention-scalds and falls.
Traffic:
- Road safety program;
- Hazzard audits to identify prblems;
- Review of school roads and childrens crossings, speed limits;
- Introduction of speed humps, one way traffic areas;
- Improved road signs.
Occupational:
- Farm safety program;
- Develop awareness of back care;
- identification of risks;
- Educate agricultural school students on injury prevention within the curriculum.
- Work safe program –promote safe work environment within business and service areas
in town.
School:
- Safety rules ok program;
- Hazzard audits of the school environment;
- Changes to school;
- Where appropriate, remove or replace equipment etc.
- First aid courses for year 7;
- Bike safety program;
- Eye safety program;
Sports:
- Level 1: coaching accreditation for all coaches;
- Injury prevention program for all persons involved in sports;
- Increased shade at outdoor sports venues;
- Encourage warm up and cool down as appropriate within all school sports programs.
Leisure:
- Tourist safety program – hazzard audits of all major tourist destinations, beaches,
Reserves, parks, walk trails etc.
Food safety program for major food outlets
Violence prevention:
- Data collection through health and police;
- Womans collective provides support and refuge;
- Domestic violence information kits available through health service, this provides local
support info;
- Child protection service.
Suicide prevention:
- Communtiy mental health service;
- Suicide prevention program;
- Post natal depression screening – Edinburgh
- Postnatal depression scale;
- Post natal depression support group;
- Bouncing back program.
- MOM S support group.
- Youth house and youth support officer.
Programs aiming at "High risk-groups":
- Youth program
- Suicide prevention Program
- Tourist Safety
- Alcohol Accord-18-30yr olds
- Stay on your Feet Program >65 yr olds.
Surveillance of injuries:
Hospital, Schools, Recreation Centre, Police, Child Health.
Injury Surveillance data collection project: Alcohol data collection
Project. Sports injury Register. School injury register.
Numbers per year:1994 data –593 injuries. 1999 data currently
being collected.
Population base:1994 data-3,500. 1999 data-4,500.
Started year: 1994
Publications: (Scientific)
Injury surveillance data project 1994
Produced information material, pamphlets:
- Health promotion brochure;
- Beach and coastal signs;
- Road signs;
- Tourist brochure;
- Information currently being designed. Mini poster for health professionals on injury
prevention.
Staff:
Number: one coordinator, permanent, part time
Organization:Denmark District Health Service
Specific intersectoral leadership group: Injury Prevention Reference
Group
General public health/health promotion group: School committee, Farm
Safety committee, Road Safety committee.Recreation centre advisory committee. Youth
advisory committee.
International commitments:
- Study visits:Interstate, Australia
- Participation in Safe Community Conferences: Where?Vienna,October 1999
- 8th International Safe Communities Conference
- Hosting Safe Community Conferences: When?Pacific rim conference 2003
- Hosting "Travelling Seminars":1997 hosted visit from Leif Svanstrom-Head WHO
Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion
- Other, what?.....Presented papers at the following conferences
- 5th National Rural Health Conference, Perth 1996
- National Health Promotion Conference, Perth 1999
- Abstract accepted for paper presentation at 2nd International Primary Health
Care Conference, Melbourne 2000
For further information contact:
Sue Roberts
Denmark District Health Service
PO Box 95
Denmark 6333, Australia
Phone: +61 2 98481202, Fax: +61 2 98481058
sue.roberts@health.wa.gov.au
and
Kathy Irwin
kathy.irwin@health.wa.gov.au
Copyright © 1999-2000 Dept. of Public Health Sciences.
Updated by  Moa
Sundström, 2002-10-29 14:38.
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