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Name of the Community: Vejle County
Country: Denmark
Number of inhabitants: 345,000
Programme started year: 1983
International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year: 2001
Website: www.vejleamt.dk
 
The programme covers the following safety promotion activities for different
agegroups:
Children 0-14 years:
Campaign aimed at parents and children starting school for the first time, to ensure
the childrens safety on their way to school.
Bicycle helmet promotion.
Youth 15-24 years:
Traffic information officer visits the students in the 8th-10th
grade, high schools, technical colleges, supplementary schools and schools of production.
Test project for breaking and evasion manoeuvres at high speed so that young people
under controlled conditions an practise handling a vehicle at high speed. Speed
restriction campaigns. Campaigns against drink & driving.Red cross: a campaign for the
protection of bicyclists in the traffic.
Adults 25-64 years:
Speed restriction campaigns. Campaigns against drink & driving.
Elderly 65+ years:
Information meetings and courses for elderly motorists. Initiatives to prevent
fall-accidents.
At the following environments:
Home:
Prevention of fall-accidents among senior citizens.
Traffic:
Traffic information officer. Recently plans of a project to collect data collected
from a hospital to discover and analyze traffical "black spots".
For further information, contact:
Lars Høstrup: lah @vejleamt.dk
Occupational:
Rescently started a projet to investigate - with the intention of preventing -
accidents in the agriculture sector.
For further information, contact:
Charlotte Hjort: chj @vejleamt.dk
School:
Traffic information officer.
Sports:
In 1993 a project to prevent sportsinjuries.
Other:
Recently started projet to minimalize the effects of war- traumas among refugees.
"Accidents" (non-intentional injuries) in the following injury areas:
Violence prevention:
A special "Violence-package" has been developed for eduacational use in
primary schools. In the county there is a number of institutions for mentally disabled
people, who often communicate physically" with violence as their only language.
To prevent too many incidents, the county has made 3-days courses for employees
from these institutions.
Suicide prevention:
The county has a specialized employee to deal with different initiatives to prevent
suicideattempts.
For further information contact:
Karin Oudshoorn : koo @vejleamt.dk
Programs aiming at "High risk-groups":
"Wuthering highs": an ambitious project, where so called
"drug-rangers" were trained to make excursions at schools, highschools etc. in
an attempt to let young people deliver the anti-drug message to other young people.
Surveillance of injuries:
according to one analysis from the hospital in Horsens:
Numbers pr year: approx. 50,000 of which 160 were lethal.
Population base: 345,000
Publications: (scientific):
1993: Ph. D. thesis about fall-accidents among seniorcitizens (Poulstrup)
1994: Ph. D thesis about healthinformation and innovation (Meillier)
1998: Ph. D. thesis about the preventional effects of the use of bicycle-helmets (Larsen)
Produced information material, pamphlets: numerous publications of various kinds.
Staff:
Permanent:
Poul Højmose, permanent head of the office for The Prevention Committee.
Kirsten Nørby, permanent assistant.
Lars Høstrup, permanent traffic information officer.
Temporary:
Charlotte Hjort, projectmanager
Claus Kvist Hansen, projectmanager
General public health / health promotion group:
yes, but organized elsewhere in the county administration as well.
International commitments:
Study visits:
Holland 1992 (sportinjuries),
Australia 1996 (accidents at work)
Sweden (Karolinska) 1998.
Participation in Safe Community conferences:
Atlanta 1993, Melbourne/Sydney 1996, Iceland 1999. Delhi 2000. Bangladesh 2000
Hosting Safe Community conference:
November 13th 2000: hosting a national conference in collaboration with The
County of Funen.
August 21-24 2001: hosting the 4th. Nordic Safe Community Conference in
collaboration with The County of Funen, Denmark. Abstract book
For further information contact:
Poul Højmose
The Prevention Committee, Vejle Amt
Damhaven 12, 7100 Vejle
Denmark
Phone: +45 7583 5333
Fax: +45 7583 1675
E-mail: poh@vejleamt.dk
Kirsten Nørby: knp@vejleamt.dk
Lars Høstrup: lah@vejleamt.dk
Charlotte Hjort: chj@vejleamt.dk
Claus Kvist Hansen: ckh@vejleamt.dk
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Download the application report:
 Vejle, Denmark-
Application to Become a Member of the Safe Community Network
Updated by  Moa Sundström, 2002-10-29 14:39.
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