Dear colleagues,

We are few days away from the largest annual European public health event, the 17th European Public Health Conference 2024 – “Sailing the waves of European public health: exploring a sea of innovation” to the beautiful city of Lisbon, Portugal, from 13-15 November 2024. 

Please mind the following:

• Venue: The 17th EPH Conference will be held in Lisbon Congress Center (CCL). Address:  Praça das Indústrias 1, 1300-307 Lisboa, Portugal. HERE 
• Accommodation: HERE
• Conference program HERE  
• Pre-conference program HERE  
• To stay in touch, please follow and use this year’s #EPH2024 and #EUPHAatEPH2024 hashtags on LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Facebook!

Our section’s events during the EPH 2024 Conference

Our section organizes 2 workshops, 1 Join the network meeting and several presentations on injury prevention. We encourage young researchers, community workers, policy makers, academics, and public health practitioners to register and join the discussion on injury prevention and safety promotion. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to engage with leading experts, exchange knowledge, and contribute to shaping the future of public health.

—————————————————————————————————————-
Scientific session: Child injuries monitoring and reporting: Challenges and technological developments
Wednesday 13th November 2024, Lisbon Time: 9:00-10:00

Organisers:
•    Section Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion / EUPHA-INJ
•    Section Child & Adolescent Public Health / CAPH
•    European Association for Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion / EuroSafe
•    IDB network

Presentations:

• Preventing unintentional injuries due to home and leisure time accidents in children: the parents’ beliefs matters (CHILD Vigilance project – CHIVI).
• Machine Learning Approach to Injury Monitoring in Children and Adolescents.
• Long-term disability following childhood injury: an imperative to monitor and address the continuum of trauma care.
• Home and leisure accidents among children and young people up to 19 years old as an event observed in the EU-IDB surveillance system: 2012-2021 data.

Speakers:

• Tatiana Alves (Portugal)
• Sonja Feer (Switzerland)
• Shanthi Ameratunga (New Zealand) 
• Birute Strukcinskiene (Lithuania)

—————————————————————————————————————-

Road traffic injuries, disability burden and implications for compensation schemes in Europe
Wednesday 13th November 2024, Lisbon Time: 15:50-16:15

Organisers:
•    Section Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion / EUPHA-INJ
•    Social Security Work and Health / SSWH
•    Public Health Economics / ECO
•    European Association for Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion / EuroSafe
•    IDB network

Presentations:

• Health loss after road transport injury – new perspectives
• Statistics on disability pensioners is important for assessing injury burden
• Analysis of traffic injury trends, and strategies for road safety promotion in Lithuania
• ProtAct-Us from serious injuries with long-term consequences
• Public-Private Partnerships: A model for injury prevention and safety promotion – Benefitting communities and NGOs

Speakers: 

• Emilie Friberg (EUPHA-SSWH)
• Johan Lund (EUPHA-INJ)
• Birute Strukcinskiene (EUPHA-INJ)
• Werner Leitgeb (Austria)
• Eva Vaagland (Norway)

—————————————————————————————————————-

JOIN THE NETWORK 

Injury prevention and safety promotion 
Wednesday 13th November 2024, Lisbon Time: 14:00-15:00 Room 5A

Our “Join the Network” meeting will allow us to have an open discussion, share insights and collectively work towards injury prevention and safety promotion. We encourage you to join this meeting and bring along your research ideas and priorities, as we want to make sure that all voices are heard, and all individuals are represented in the section’s activities.

—————————————————————————————————————-

SOME SECTION’S NEWS IN 2024

Some section 2024 initiatives that are aligned to our strategic goals can be found below. It is our effort to keep evolving to meet the changing needs of our members. More precisely, EUPHA Injury Section: 

• Co-organized awareness raising events on DRINK DRIVING during the European Public Health Week (EPHW2024) in May 2024, together with the Regional Health Authority, Universities and NGOs in Greece.
• Started a new Horizon project “ProtAct-Us from long-term consequences of road crashes” aiming at merging solid medical knowledge with innovative engineering solutions to protect all road users from serious injuries and the long-term physical, cognitive, and mental health consequences of road crashes.. This project received funding under grant agreement No. 101147445. The kick-off meeting was held in June 2024 at Graz, Austria.
• Co-organized side events for SAFE DRIVING at EUROBASKET (U16), a high-profile FIBA tournament held in Heraklion Greece, between 9-17 August 2024 together with EuroSafe, the Hellenic Basketball Federation and other NGOs.
• Presented data from 3-countries from the Child Vigilance Project (CHIVI) in ICE network at University of Chicago, India on the 31st August 2024 as well as in SAFETY 2024 Conference in India, 2-4 September 2024.
• Presented the European situation regarding “Injuries among elder residents of institutional care: shortcomings and implications for policy” at the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) 17-19 September Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Participated in multi-agency meeting in Cyprus (police, university, NGO) in October 5th 2024 about capacity building in road safety promotion.
• Participated in the WHO RC74 in October 29-31 at Copenhagen with live joint statements on health and safety topics.
• Published scientific work “Mental health impairment and recovery after a road traffic injury. Where do we stand in Europe?” Front Public Health. 2024 Oct 18;12:1418920. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1418920

—————————————————————————————————————-

INTERESTING NEWS

• Legislative proposal on combating violence against women and domestic violence – Q4 2021. More information: HERE
• CDC WISQARStm. An interactive online collection of analysis tools for fatal, non fatal and cost of injury data. More information: HERE 
• WHO Database of promising interventions to prevent and respond to elder abuse. More information: HERE
• The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. More information: HERE
• European Mobility Week awards. More information: HERE
• CDC STEDI-Rx resources for pharmacists to prevent falls. More in. formation: HERE

                      

—————————————————————————————————————-

UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

• EU-SAFETY 2025 (European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion), Heraklion, Greece, 1-2 October 2025, More Information to be announced soon HERE.
• 26th EFORT Annual Congress (European Federation of National Associations for Orthopaedics and Traumatology), Lyon, France. 11-13 June 2025. More information HERE  
• 18th ESTSS Conference (European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies). Exploring new pathways for healing and recovery in times of global uncertainty and extreme stress. Tbilisi, Georgia, 12-15 June, 2025. More information HERE   
• 24th European Congress Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ECTES), Aachen Germany, 13-15 April 2025. More information HERE
• 15th World Congress on Brain Injury. Palais de Congres in Montreal, Canada.  March 19-22, 2025. Organized by the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA). More information HERE
• 14th Congress of the European Pain Federation (EFIC), Lyon France, 24-26 April 2025. Abstract submission deadline September 2024. More information HERE
• 21st European Burns Association Congress. Berlin Germany, Estrel Congress Center (ECC). September 3-6, 2025. More information HERE
• 20th International Conference Road Safety on Five Continents, Leeds, 3-5 September 2025. Abstracts until 19 January 2025. More information: HERE
• WHO – 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, Marrakech, February 2025. Registration until 10 February 2025. More information: HERE

—————————————————————————————————————-

INTERESTING STUDIES

• Alves, T., Silva, S., Rodrigues, E., Braz, P., Mexia, R., Neto, M., & Matias Dias, C. (2024). EVITA-Epidemiologia e Vigilância dos Traumatismos e Acidentes: relatório 2022.
• Alves T, Silva S, Braz P, Aniceto C, Mexia R, Matias Dias C. Falls in elderly people in Portugal: epidemiological approach based on 2023 data from the EVITA system, Quedas em pessoas idosas em Portugal: uma abordagem epidemiológica a partir dos dados de 2023 do sistema EVITA
• Bauer R., Giustini M., Nijman S., Bejko D., Data collection and analysis on the burden of injuries: Lessons learned from the IDB network, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 33, Issue Supplement_2, October 2023, ckad160.448, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.448
• Bertuccio, P., Amerio, A., Grande, E., La Vecchia, C., Costanza, A., Aguglia, A., … & Odone, A. (2024). Global trends in youth suicide from 1990 to 2020: an analysis of data from the WHO mortality database. EClinicalMedicine, 70.
• Bérubé, M., Bradley, N., O’Donnell, M., Stelfox, H. T., Garraway, N., Vasiliadis, H. M., … & Panenka, W. (2024). Clinical practice guideline recommendations to improve the mental health of adult trauma patients: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ open, 14(3), e079205.
• Boumpa, V., Papatoukaki, A., Kourti, A., Mintzia, S., Panagouli, E., Bacopoulou, F., … & Tsitsika, A. (2024). Sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33(6), 1653-1673.
• Carannante, A., Giustini, M., Caredda, E., & Gaudi, S. (2024). Precision prevention network: new pathway for supporting women victims of violence. Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanita, 60(3), 234-238.
• Goel, R., Tiwari, G., Varghese, M., Bhalla, K., Agrawal, G., Saini, G., … & Mohan, D. (2024). Effectiveness of road safety interventions: An evidence and gap map. Campbell systematic reviews, 20(1), e1367.
• Hietbrink, F., Mohseni, S., Mariani, D., Naess, P. A., Rey-Valcárcel, C., Biloslavo, A., … & Visceral Trauma Section of the European Society of Trauma, Emergency Surgery. (2024). What trauma patients need: the European dilemma. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 50(3), 627-634.
• Noé, E., Gómez, A., Bernabeu, M., Quemada, I., Rodríguez, R., Pérez, T., … & Ferri, J. (2024). Guidelines: Basic principles of neurorehabilitation for patients with acquired brain injury. Recommendations of the Spanish Society of Neurorehabilitation. Neurología (English Edition), 39(3), 261-281.
• Ohm, E., Madsen, C., Gravseth, H. M., Brage, S., Grøholt, E. K., Alver, K., & Holvik, K. (2024). Post-injury long-term sickness absence and risk of disability pension: The role of socioeconomic status. Injury, 55(4), 111480.
• Papadakaki, M., Kounali, V., Megge, E., Manioti, T., Morfovasili, M. G., Anastasaki, M., … & Vagionaki, K. (2024). Counselling for domestic violence offenders: an innovative program offered by a university laboratory in Greece, in collaboration with the justice system. Injury Prevention 2024;30:A140.
• Papadakaki, M., Strukcinskiene, B., Alves, T., & Lund, J. Mental health impairment and recovery after a road traffic injury: Where do we stand in Europe?. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1418920.
• Patwardhan, V., Gil, G. F., Arrieta, A., Cagney, J., DeGraw, E., Herbert, M. E., … & Flor, L. S. (2024). Differences across the lifespan between females and males in the top 20 causes of disease burden globally: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Public Health, 9(5), e282-e294.
• Peterson C, Haileyesus T, Herbst JH, Gerald MS, Florence C. Economic Cost of US Older Adult Assault Injuries. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(10):e2437644. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.37644
• Pirkis, J., Bantjes, J., Dandona, R., Knipe, D., Pitman, A., Robinson, J., … & Hawton, K. (2024). Addressing key risk factors for suicide at a societal level. The Lancet Public Health, 9(10), e816-e824.
• Walz, C., Kullmer, U., Lecht, J., Riepert, T., & Germerott, T. (2024). Child-related risk factors and injuries in cases of physical child abuse. Rechtsmedizin, 34(1), 45-51.
• Wegman, F., & Schepers, P. (2024). Safe System approach for cyclists in the Netherlands: Towards zero fatalities and serious injuries?. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 195, 107396.

Best regards,
Maria Papadakaki and the EUPHA INJ team
LaHeRS & PHC-HMU, Hellenic Mediterranean University

Section related news