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Name of the
Community: Vågå kommune
Country: Norway
Number of inhabitants: 3,801
Programme started year: 2002
"WHO- designation" year: 2004
Info address on www for the institution: www.vaga.kommune.no
The
programme covers the following safety promotion activities:
Children
0-14 years:
The health center plays an important role in relation to injury
prevention among children. The prevention begins before the
child is born and is systematically followed up in connection
to the routine controls of the child. This kind of prevention
is mostly related to accidents at home.
Kindergartens
and schools have an internal control system where among other
thing inspections of playgrounds and registration of injuries
are a common routine. Kindergartens work with management of
grief and have an emergency plan. The schools have as well a
plan against bullying. Traffic is on the agenda at kindergartens
and schools at many different levels and will be further described
below.
Youth
15-24 years: The municipality offers Health station for
youth where problems can be discussed with a nurse or a doctor.
"The Night Owls" is a group of voluntarily parents
who are patrolling at night in the weekends to prevent problems
like violence, drug and alcohol. A youth consultant has been
employed in the municipality to work with problems related to
the youth.
Adults
25-64 years: Programmes concerning adults is programmes
of general character in areas like traffic, work life and leisure.
See below.
Elderly
65+ years:
There has been developed a specific programme in Vågå
concerning all 75 year olds, which are offered a home visit
by a nurse. A checklist that consists of 69 items is used to
go through the details in the home and if some conditions are
unsatisfactory, it will be followed up. In autumn vaccination
against flu is offered and free grit is handed out to the elderly
in wintertime. There is an annual Elderly Week with themes in
relation to preventive actions.
At
the following environments:
Home:
Accidents at home are most common among the high risk groups
children and the elderly and is prevented through information
from the Health center and the above mentioned actions.
Traffic:
A new Road Safety Plan will be finished in summer 2003 and
the municipals future work with prevention in traffic will follow
this plan.
Occupational:
The municipal does cooperate with the agricultural Health, Environment
and Safety Service and the Company Health Service to prevent
accidents in worklife.
School:
Prevention at school takes place at many different levels differing
from a plan against bullying to daily work-out for all the pupils.
Traffic is an area of main interest and one school has a bicycle
policy where children are not permitted to go to school on bicycles
until fifth grade. At another school they demand the children
to wear a helmet before they are allowed to use their bicycles.
Reflective waistcoats are sponsored by voluntarily and commercial
organizations and are handed to the new pupils in first grade.
All the schools cooperate with the school bus drivers as well
as the police.
Sports:
In the local sport clubs there is a focus on proper training,
including warming up and the correct use of equipment. This
focus has been reinforced by the employment of a sports consultant.
Leisure:
A lot of accidents in Vågå happen in the out door
life. Many of the possible dangers are prevented through the
exchange of personal experience and the local tourist information
plays an important role in informing the tourists. To prevent
drowning accidents there are installed lifelines on certain
wharf's. Use of helmets in the Alpine centre is common.
Violence
prevention: It is not a common problem in Vågå
municipality, and it is prevented through the establishment
of "The Night Owls" where a voluntarily group of parents
is patrolling at night in the weekends.
Suicide
prevention: It is not a common problem in Vågå
municipality but several professional groups in the health sector
take care of prevention of this matter in their daily work.
A cross professional group can be established in short time
if neccesary.
Programs
aiming at "High risk-groups": Yes, programmes
for children, youth and the elderly. See above.
Surveillance
of injuries:
Vågå Health Centre
Numbers per year: 364
Population base: 3801
Started year: 2001
Publications:
Scientific:
No
Produced information material, pamphlets:
Yes, in relation to a project "Health for the elderly"
there is produced different information material.
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Staff
Number:
5
Professions: Pedagogical Consultant, Agriculture Adviser, Land
use Planning and Environmental Consultant, District Medical
Officer, Borough Engineer.
Permanent: Yes
Organization: A cross-sectional steering committee members is
responsible for a working group each, covering the different
problem areas in the municipal: Traffic, sport and out door
life, children and youth, agriculture and employment and home
accidents.
Specific intersectoral leadership group: Yes
General public health/health promotion group: Yes
International commitments:
Study visits: In Odense and Vejle County, Denmark, 2002.
Participation in Safe Community conferences: Participatedin
Helsinki, Finland, 2003.
Hosting Safe Community Conferences: No, not yet.
Hosting "Travelling Seminars": No, not yet
Other: Participation in the appointment of Horsens and Nordborg
municipalities as members of the Safe Community network in Denmark
2003.
Seminar: March 2004 with focus on injuries in out-door life.
For further information contact:
Anne Aastrup
Vågå kommune
Edvard Storms Veg 2
NO-2680 Vågå
Norway
Phone: 4761293600
Fax: +4761293601
E-mail: anne.aastrup@vaga.kommune.no
Updated
by 
Moa Sundström,
2004-03-05 13:53
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