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Name of the Community:Lidköping
Country: Sweden
Number of inhabitants: 37 000
Programme started year: 1984
"WHO- designation" year: 1989
The programme covers the following safety
promotion activities:
For the age group:
Children 0-14 years:
Group meetings for parents to be;
Group meetings for parents after birth ;
Lending safety devices such as car safety cradles;
Bag with safety devices for demonstration to parents about child safety;
Home safety checklists for the parents;
Traffic safety club that distributes information to parents with children born from 1998
and forward, about safety and special offers on traffic safety products;
Discount on bicycle helmets for children and their parents;
Safety inspections at playgrounds, by technicians;
Public courses about child safety;
Local newspaper articles about child safety;
Parents patrolling the township every Friday night and some Saturday nights;
Traffic safety education in all schools for children 7-13 years old;
Pupils safety representive in the schools;
Information in schools at parents meetings, from local policemen and public health planner
about alcohol, drugs and parental responsibility;
Special bicycle helmet designed in a local sports club's colours and logotype;
Schoolyard inventory and preparation of the physical environment;
The icehockeyclub HC Lidköping/ Red Roosters works
actively against racism and drugs
Youth
15-24 years:
Voluntary education for young car drivers, age 18-24;
Activating the youth in many 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;
Policies for the sports organizations;
Local sports club educating children, parents and leaders in ethics, moral, drugs and
alcohol;
Actions against bootlegging of alcohol to young people;
Project to inspire upper secondary school pupils to work with traffic safety;
Special bicycle helmet designed in a local sports club's colours and logotype;
Adults 25-64 years:
Measures mainly worked out by the Occupational Health organization and the Rehabilitation
Unit at the Health Center: Education, Inspection and Examination;
Preparation of the physical environment, like streets and pavements, to prevent accidents;
Elderly 65+
Physical and social activities arranged by the elderly organizations;
Education, safety inspection and helping aids supplied by the Social Service Unit and the
Health Care center; Working with the psychosocial health issue;
At the following environments:
Home: Yes
Traffic: Yes
The vision zero.
On October 9th, 1997 the Road Traffic Safety Bill, founded on "Vision Zero", was
passed by a large majority in the Swedish Parliament. This represents an entirely new way
of thinking with respect to road traffic safety. The long term goal, for vision-zero, is
that no-one will be killed or seriously injured within the Swedish road transport system.
Lidköping has been elected to be a test community for vision-zero. The idea is to test
different measures in the spirit of vision-zero, evaluate the measures and spread the
knowledge and the experiences to the rest of the country.
Occupational: No
School: Yes
Leisure: Yes
Other: Yes
"Accidents" (non-intentional
injuries) in the following injury areas:
Violence prevention (intentional injuries):
Yes
Suicide prevention (self-inflicted injuries):
No
Programs aiming at "high risk-groups": Yes
Surveillance of injuries: Registration in the hospital, three local carecentres and
two dental carecenters.
Population base:37.000
Registration:1989-1993
Registration: 1998-
Registration of injuries is being conducted since january 1998 in all
care-giving centers in Skaraborg
Publications: (Scientific)
The Lidköping Accident Prevention Programme - a
community approach to preventing childhood injuries in Sweden.
Leif Svanström, Lothar Schelp, Åke Lindström
Injury Prevention 1995; 1:169-172
Preventing femoral fractures among elderly: The
community safety approach.
Leif Svanström, Maj Ader, Lothar Schelp, Åke Lindström
Safety Science 21 (1996) 239-246
Produced information material, pamphlets: Child
safe, Elderly safe and Hazard Line
International commitments:
Study visits:
1990 Norway, Denmark, England, Australia and Estonia
1991 New Zeeland
1993 Australia
1994 Estonia
1995 Philippines
Participation in international Safe Community
conferences:
1991 Falköping, Sweden
1993 Glasgow, Scotland
1994 Harstad, Norway
1995 Forth Mc Murray, Canada
1998 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hosting Safe Community conferences: -
Hosting "Travelling Seminars": 1989,
1991 and 1994
Staff:
Sten Tollmar, Programme leader
Elisabeth Svensson, Public Health Secretary and Programme leader
Elisabeth Nilsson, Children
Erna Gustavsson, Elderly
Dan-Eric Sjögren, Traffic
Esse Carlsson, Sports
Professions: Part-time
Permanent: Yes
Temporary:
Organization: Lidköping Municipality, Primary Health Care and Public Health Unit
of Skaraborg County Council
Specific intersectoral leadership group: A general public health/health promoting
group.
For further information contact:
Elisabeath Svensson
Public Health Unit
SE-531 88 Lidköping
Sweden
Phone: 0510 - 77 12 81
Fax: 0510 - 77 01 88
E -mail: elisabeth.svensson@lidkoping.se
Sten Tollmar
Municipal Office
Community of Lidköping
SE-531 88 Lidköping
Sweden
Phone: 0510 - 77 01 74
Fax: 0510 - 77 01 88
E-mail: sten.tollmar@lidkoping.se
Copyright © 1999-2000 Dept. of Public Health Sciences.
Updated by  Moa
Sundström, 2002-10-29 14:39.
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