Injuries and violence are a major public health burden across the globe. The 13th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (Safety 2018) will bring together over 1000 of the world's leading researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and activists to share information and experiences and to discuss solutions. Conference major theme is “Advancing injury and violence prevention towards SDGs”
The abstract should contain no more than 300 words that illustrate original research, synthesis, reviews, debates or documenting experience from the field on the subjects which have never been presented at any international conference.
The abstract can be either structured or unstructured format. Structured abstract should contain the following: Background, objective, methods, findings, conclusion and policy implications. Unstructured abstract should contain essential elements for which the international reviewers can judge the merits of the works.
Essential fields in the abstract cover the following1. Title of the abstract 2. Name, position, affiliation institute, country of all author; 3. Specify which author is a co-responding author and which author will be the presenter if abstract is qualified and selected 4. Indicate needs for funding support or not [see detail in funding opportunities] 5. Main body of abstract, not beyond 300 words 6. Please indicate which sub-themes and key word(s) most related to your abstract
SUB-THEME 1: CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES (RELEVANT TO UNINTENTIONAL INJURY AND VIOLENCE)1.1 Safety and non-violence in all policies 1.2 Injury surveillance and injury prevention research 1.3 Law, legislation and regulatory capacities 1.4 Policies and implementation on injury prevention and safety promotion 1.5 Multi-sectoral actions supporting injury prevention and safety promotion 1.6 Evidence for policies, data and statistics 1.7 Prevention, pre-hospital emergency medical services, services provisions (Accident and Emergency, trauma and critical care systems), psychosocial support and rehabilitation 1.8 Human right protection 1.9 Capacity building 1.10 Advocacy 1.11 Safety culture and risk management 1.12 Safety and injury in different settings e.g. occupational, labour, workplace, schools, home, leisure, disasters and mass emergencies, sport, transport safety, communities and public areas 1.13 Gender inequality 1.14 Alcohol related domestic violence, traffic injuries, self-harm and harms to others. 1.15 Preparedness and resilience (e.g. disaster, mass causalities, civil protection)
SUB-THEME 2: UNINTENTIONAL INJURY2.1 Road traffic injury 2.2 Occupational safety 2.3 Burns and Fire Prevention; 2.4 Child and adolescent safety; 2.5 Consumer product safety and safety of services; 2.6 Falls in older people; 2.7 Home safety; 2.8 Prevention of intoxications; 2.9 Sport and recreation; 2.10 Safe Communities 2.11 Water safety and drowning prevention; 2.12 Other unintentional injuries
SUB-THEME 3: VIOLENCE3.1 Violence-related injury: all types 3.2 Violence against women, female genital mutilation 3.3 Child maltreatment, implementation of Convention on Child Right 3.4 Youth violence 3.5 Abuse of elderly, person with disability, children, women, and other vulnerable population 3.6 Intimate partner violence 3.7 Sexual violence 3.8 Self-harm, suicide and effective suicide preventions 3.9 Implementation of Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women 3.10 Self-inflicted violence 3.11 Collective violence
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