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level. Therefore, the prevention challenge should
consist of maintaining or even expanding this standard
in future. This challenge includes both behaviourally
preventive as well as situationally preventive
intervention approaches such as, for example,
educational measures for children/adolescents and
their supervisors and the periodic state-of-the-art
servicing or maintenance of electrical equipment
and systems (Table 12).
4.5 Particular aspects re. prevention
work
4.5.1 Children and adolescents – strategic
considerations
The European report on the prevention of
children’s injuries contains an action plan consisting
of nine points, which aims to ensure that
intended prevention goals can also be realised.
While these considerations or recommendations
refer to the European Union, they also appear to
be relevant to Switzerland:
1. Comprehensively integrate injury prevention for
children and adolescents into the promotion of
children’s and adolescents’ health and development
2. Develop and implement a policy and a plan for
the prevention of accidents mong children: different
sectors would have to be involved (such
as governmental and non-governmental institutions
and organizations, the private sector, the
media and the public). This policy would have
to take all children into consideration, particularly
those with a low socio-economic status. In
addition, the policy must not only be limited to
the home and leisure sector, but must also take
the sports and road traffic sectors into account.
3. Implement evidence-based interventions for the
prevention and control of injuries among
children
4. Strengthen the health system to give adequate
consideration to injuries among children
5. Develop skills and exchange best-practice information
6. Improve the quantity and quality of the data on
injury-prevention among children
7. Determine priorities regarding the risk factors,
the effect, the cost and prevention of injuries
among children and support research and evaluation
8. Increase awareness and goal-oriented investment
for the prevention of injuries among
children
9. Discuss the differences re. injuries among
children
4.5.2 Reflections on a new system for the
analysis of accident segments
The bfu system does not always match the international
categorisations of accidents or injuries. This
complicates any direct comparison with international
data and findings. Some accident segments
must be critically analyzed in terms of their thematic
orientation and corresponding benefit for prevention
work. This applies particularly to the accident
segments «Broken glass, sheetmetal, etc.»
and «Burns, chemical burns”. During the preparation
of this report, it was also discovered that in
comparison to international literature, the injury
patterns, «Asphyxia» (including choking while
swallowing) as well as «Strangulation» are not
(separately) listed within the bfu’s statistics. Optimising
the system of accident segments might not
only contribute to refining prevention work, but
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