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Safety Diagnosis Tool Kit for Local Communities: Safety Diagnosis Handbook

Promoting safety and preventing crime through a setting-oriented approach requires a structured procedure for planning the various activities to be carried out. The procedure involves mobilizing the population and intersectoral partners, making safety diagnoses and drawing up action plans. The Safety Diagnosis Tool Kit for Local Communities was prepared to assist with this procedure. It comprises several tools, including the Safety Diagnosis Handbook and six methodology guides. The document Turning Safety Diagnoses Into Action Plans: A Guide for Local Communities was prepared in addition to the tool kit, to facilitate the process of translating diagnoses into effective action plans.

To make sound decisions as to what should be done to improve safety and prevent crime in a particular life setting, it is useful to have access to a safety diagnosis for the setting concerned. A rigorous safety diagnosis will enable you to identify the problems and the social and physical conditi…

Turning Safety Diagnoses Into Action Plans: A guide for Local Communities

In recent years, several tools based on a setting-oriented approach have been developed to support safety promotion and crime prevention initiatives. This approach advocates the use of a structured procedure for planning and implementing prevention measures in life settings. The procedure involves mobilizing the population and intersectoral partners, making safety diagnoses and preparing action plans. The present document, Turning Safety Diagnoses Into Action Plans: A Guide for Local Communities, is one of the tools that follows this setting-oriented approach. It is designed to assist people who are working to develop coherent, integrated action plans that propose feasible, acceptable and effective actions based on safety diagnoses.

It is taken for granted in this tool that 1) local safety promotion and crime prevention initiatives aresupported by a cooperative mechanism, 2) the communities concerned are mobilized around the issues of safety promotion and…

Québec WHO Collaborating Centre for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention: Activity Report May 2016-April 2018

The Centre is made up of institutions in the Québec public health network under the scientific coordination of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ), which, in conjunction with its mission, establishes links with Canadian and international organizations in order to foster cooperation and the pooling of knowledge.

The Collaborating Centre seeks to contribute at the international level to research, development and the dissemination of intersectoral approaches to promote safety and prevent intentional and unintentional injuries.

2014-2018 Mandate:

  • Collaborate in the activities of the WHO and the PAHO.
  • Satisfy the needs of the international community.
  • Support the Réseau francophone international de prévention des traumatismes et de promotion de la sécurité (French-speaking injury prevention and safety promotion network).

Anticipated contributions:

  1. Collaborate on WHO’s progra…

Québec WHO Collaborating Centre for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention: Activity Report May 2014-April 2016

The Centre is made up of institutions in the Québec public health network under the scientific coordination of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ), which, in conjunction with its mission, establishes links with Canadian and international organizations in order to foster cooperation and the pooling of knowledge. The Collaborating Centre seeks to contribute at the international level to research, development and the dissemination of intersectoral approaches to promote safety and prevent intentional and unintetional injuries.

2014-2018 Mandate:

  • Collaborate in the activities of the WHO and the PAHO.

  • Satisfy the needs of the international community.

  • Support the Réseau francophone international de prévention des traumatismes et de promotion de la sécurité (French-speaking injury prevention and safety promotion network).

Anticipated contributions:

  • Collaborate on WHO’s p…
Centre collaborateur OMS pour la promotion de la sécurité et la prévention des traumatismes

Bill 64: Firearms Registration Act

The issues related to access to firearms go well beyond the use of these weapons in criminal activities. Access to firearms is an important risk factor for suicide, homicide, particularly spousal homicide, and accidental death.

Most firearm-related deaths are not linked to criminal activities and involve long guns

  • Between 2009 and 2013, an average of 127 people died in Québec annually due to firearm-related suicide. This is 5 times the number of victims of firearm-related homicide.
  • Suicide is the leading cause of firearm-related deaths in Québec. In most cases, the suicides are committed in the victim’s home using a long gun.
  • Most victims of firearm-related deaths are male, except in intrafamilial homicides.
  • Firearm-related deaths occur throughout Québec, but the risk of firearm-related suicide is higher in rural areas than in urban or peri-urban ones.

The scientific literature shows that th…

Québec WHO Collaborating Centre for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention: Activity Report January 2013-April 2014

The Centre is made up of institutions in the Québec public health network under the scientific coordination of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ), which, in conjunction with its mission, establishes links with Canadian and international organizations in order to foster cooperation and the pooling of knowledge.

This report is submitted each year to the WHO/PAHO and is part of the organization's management and monitoring requirements in respect of the Québec WHO Collaborating Centre for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention. Exceptionally, this report covers a period of 16 months, i.e. the year 2013 and the first four months of 2014, given that the Centre's 2010-2014 mandate expired at the end of April 2014. The next report will cover a period of eight months, starting with the new 2014-2018 mandate. The report refers solely to activities related to the mandate received from the WHO/PAHO.

Québec WHO Collaborating Centre for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention: Activity Report 2012

The Centre is made up of institutions in the Québec public health network under the scientific coordination of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec, which, in conjunction with its mission, establishes links with Canadian and international organizations in order to foster cooperation and the pooling of knowledge.

This report is submitted each year to the WHO/PAHO and is part of the organization's management and monitoring requirements in respect of the Québec WHO Collaborating Centre for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention. It refers solely to activities related to the mandate received from the WHO/PAHO.

Centre collaborateur OMS pour la promotion de la sécurité et la prévention des traumatismes

Québec WHO Collaborating Centre for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention: Activity Report 2011

The Québec WHO Collaborating Centre (CC) for Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention, established in 1995, is comprised of institutions in the Québec public health network, i.e. four regional public health branches (Montréal, Montérégie, Capitale-Nationale and Bas-Saint-Laurent), the Direction générale de la santé publique in the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ). Through its mission of international cooperation, the INSPQ is responsible for ensuring the Centre's leadership and coordination.

Within their respective mandates, these partners run promotional activities on safety and prevention of intentional and unintentional injuries. These activities cover various fields of intervention such as violence and suicide prevention as well as safety promotion and injury prevention in urban environments, in transportation, in residential and in recreational and sports activities. The 2011 Activity Rep…

Centre collaborateur OMS pour la promotion de la sécurité et la prévention des traumatismes

Safety Diagnosis Tool Kit for Local Communities: Guide to Developing a General Portrait of Life Settings

To do a safety diagnosis for a particular life setting, you have to get to know the setting. You will thus obtain a good understanding of its specific characteristics, as well a frame of reference for data collection activities. The present guide describes the main steps involved in developing a life setting’s general portrait.

Although many parameters can be used to characterize a life setting, some warrant special attention in a process aimed at improving safety or preventing crime; for example, the setting’s geographic, human and economic characteristics and some of its physical characteristics pertaining to housing. Gaining insight into these characteristics will enable you to:

  • share in general knowledge about the life setting under study;
  • clearly define the setting in relation to the surrounding area and according to zones of interest;
  • ensure that all segments of the population are well represented;
  • frame requests for informa…

Safety Diagnosis Tool Kit for Local Communities: Guide to Organizing Focus Groups – 2nd edition

A focus group is a group discussion led by a facilitator. Participants are asked to share their thoughts on a particular topic, based on their personal opinions and experience. They are also encouraged to react to the views expressed by other participants and to say where they stand in relation to those views.

In the model proposed in this guide, focus group participants are selected on the basis of criteria that ensure the life setting under study is well represented. This approach guarantees that the groups provide a wide range of viewpoints and perceptions, and can thus help to shed light on the different opinions and degree of consensus that exist on a given topic, such as the feeling of safety in a regional county municipality (RCM) or a municipality. In safety diagnoses, focus groups are used primarily to gather the opinions and perceptions of a population about the following safety-related topics: the safety of a particular life setting, the feeling of safety, and pro…