Safe Community Suwon No.63

Name of the Community : Suwon
Country: Republic of Korea (South Korea)
Number of inhabitants: 1,099,593 (April 2010)
Programme started year: 1999
International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year: 2002
Re-designation: 2007

Full application available: http://www.safesuwon.or.kr/

http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/safecommunities/suwon2.pdf

For further information contact:
Seo Youngmi (Ms)
Suwon City Hall
241 Hyowon-ro(Ingye-dong), Paldal-gu
Suwon 442-701
Republic of Korea

Phone: +82-31-228-2846
Fax: +82-31-228-2850
E-mail: hiyoungmi@korea.kr

http://www.suwon.ne.kr

Department of Disaster and Safety Management
1111 Ingye-Dong, Paldal-Gu
Suwon City , Gyeonggi-Do
Republic of Korea
Phone: +82-31-228-2727
Fax: +82-31-228-2850
E-mail: safe@suwon.ne.kr

http://www.suwon.ne.kr/
http://safe.suwon.ne.kr/

The programme covers the following safety promotion activities:

Children 0-14 years:

· Safety education for parents in health center

· Safe management education for nursery school teachers

· Lecturing tour for Nursery school

· Child safety education with their parents

· Manufacture and distribution on Safety education CD

· Safety diary

· Traffic safety education

· Installation of traffic safety signal

· Child safety protective wear campaign

· Child safety product exhibition

· Child safety seats campaign

Youth 15-24 years:

· CPR and First aid education

· Civil defense corps education

· Suicide prevention program

Adults 25-64 years:

· CPR and First aid education

· Civil defense corps education

· Suicide prevention program

Elderly 65+ years:

· Balance training

· Distribution of fall prevention materials

· Distribution of non-slip socks

· Installation of grab bar in Toilet

· Suicide prevention program

At the following environments :

Home:
· Safety education for parents in health center

· Safe management education for nursery school teachers

· Lecturing tour for nursery schools

· Child safety education with their parents

· Manufacture and distribution of CD on safety education

· Balance training

· Distribution of fall prevention materials

Traffic:
· Traffic safety education

· Installation of traffic safety signal

· Civil defense corps education

Occupational:
· Civil defense corps education

School:

· Distribution of safety diary
· CPR and First aid education

Sports:

Leisure:

Violence prevention:

The City of Suwon works in close collaboration with the Suwon local police and a wide range of non government organization to reduce the incidence of violence.

· Family violence

· Youth program

· Alcohol management

· Safe school campaign

Suicide prevention (self-inflected injuries) :

Programs aiming at ”High risk-groups”:

· CPR education for children

· Panels on child safety

· Miniature on safety home

· Parent's education on child safety

· Booklet safety home

· Event of child safety week

· Education in nursery schools

· Safety camp for children

· Safety management for playground

· CD-ROM on child safety

· Brochure for fall prevention

· Safety manual for fall prevention

· Poster on balance training exercise

· Toilet grip bar

· Non-sleep socks for elderly

Surveillance of injuries :

· Injury mortality

In the last ten years, the number of injury deaths per one hundred thousand people in Suwon decreased from 55.3 in 1996 to 39.2 in 2002. Al though the number slightly increased to 46.6 in 2004, the number decreased again to 41.9 in 2005

· Injury mortality by gender in Suwon

During last ten years, the number of injury death by female has been showed steady tendency. The injury mortality death per one hundred thousand populations of men was considerably decreased from 80.1 in 1996 to 51.6 in 2000 and the number was somewhat increased again with 64.9 in 2004.

· Injury mortality by age in Suwon

‘Throughout the last ten years, there has a similar trend in the number of injury death for all ages. The number of injury death for all ages decreased until 2000. The mortality number on less than 19 years old decreased a little at a steady rate until 2005 but the mortality number increased for those aged 45 and up. In particular number of injury death per one hundred thousand people over 65 significantly increased in 2001.

· Injury mortality by injury mechanism in Suwon

As the injury intent and mechanism the number of injury death by road traffic injury has decreased during last ten years and the number of deaths has been under 10 every year since 2004 but suicide deaths have increased sharply. The number of injury death by falls also increased until 2003 and then decreased again since 2004.

Numbers per year:

Population base: 1,086,000

Started year: 1999

Produced information material, pamphlets:

· Booklet safety home

· Safety manual for playground

· CD-ROM on child safety

· Brochure for fall prevention

· Safety manual for fall prevention

· Poster on balance training exercise

Staff

Number: 5
Professions: full-time: 5
Specific intersectoral leadership group: Suwon Safe Community council

General public health promotion group: Health life practice council, Suwon community medical health review committee

International commitments:

Study visits:

Participation in Safe Community Conferences:

· The 12th International Conference on Safe Communities (2003, Hong Kong, China)

· The 2nd Asia Regional Conference on Safe Communities (2004, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

· The 6th World Conference of Injury Prevention and Control (2004, Vienna, Austria)

· The 13th International Conference on Safe Communities (2004, Prague, Czech Republic)

· The 14th International Conference on Safe Communities (2005, Bergen, Norway)

· The 3rd Asia Regional Conference on Safe Communities (2005, Taipei, Taiwan)

· The 15th International Conference on Safe Communities (2006, Cape Town, South Africa)

· International Conference on Safe School and Safe Communities (2007, Sedona, Arizona, USA)

· World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (2008, Merida, Mexico)

Hosting Safe Community Conferences:

· 1 st Asian Regional Conference on Safe Conference(2002)

· Symposium on safe community and healthy cities(2004)

· Symposium on WHO safe school (2005)