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Citation

Maurice P, Lavoie M. Inj. Prev. 2004; 10(4): 255.

Affiliation

Québec WHO Collaborating Center for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention, 2400 d’Estimauville, Beauport, Quebec, Canada G1E 7G9, pierre.maurice@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/ip.2004.006080

PMID

15066968

PMCID

PMC1730058

Abstract

We were very interested in the comments of Nilsen et al on the “concept of safety” that appeared in a recent issue of Injury Prevention.1 The authors first address safety from a theoretical point of view, then from the perspective of intervention. A 1998 monograph about the concepts of “safety” and “safety promotion” are among the main sources cited by the authors.2 This monograph, an initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO), was prepared jointly by two WHO sponsored collaborating centers (Québec WHO Collaborating Center for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention and WHO Collaborating Center on Community Safety Promotion, Karolinska Institute), and is available in .pdf format on the Institut national de santé publique du Québec’s website, in English, at http://www.inspq.qc.ca/pdf/publications/150_SecurityPromotion.pdf and in French at http://www.inspq.qc.ca/pdf/publications/149_SecuritePromotion.pdf. This document deals with the concepts of safety and of “safety promotion”. It offers a definition of safety promotion, and two distinct and complementary processes to promote its implementation: the problem based process and the setting based process. These two processes represent a “safety promotion approach”. An example illustrating this approach is presented at the end of the monograph. Over the past few years, two articles were published about this monograph in scientific journals.3,4

References
1. Nilsen P , Hudson DS, Kullberg A, et al. Making sense of safety. Inj Prev 2004;10:71–3. [FREE Full text: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/cgi/ijlink?linkType=FULL&journalCode=injuryprev&resid=10/2/71]

2. World Health Organization. Safety and safety promotion: conceptual and operational aspects. Québec: WHO, 1998:1–20.

3. Maurice P , Lavoie M, Chapdelaine A, et al. Safety and safety promotion: conceptual and operational aspects. Chronic Dis Can 1997;18:179–86.

4. Maurice P , Lavoie M, Laflamme L, et al. Safety and safety promotion: definitions for operational developments. Injury Control and Safety Promotion 2001;8:237–40.

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