Out of the silos: embedding injury prevention into the Sustainable Development Goals
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Globally, unintentional injuries contribute significantly to disability and death. Prevention efforts have traditionally focused on individual injury mechanisms and their specific risk factors, which has resulted in slow progress in reducing the burden. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global agenda for promoting human prosperity while respecting planetary boundaries. While injury prevention is currently only recognised in the SDG agenda via two road safety targets, the relevance of the SDGs for injury prevention is much broader. In this State of the Art Review, we illustrate how unintentional injury prevention efforts can be advanced substantially within a broad range of SDG goals and advocate for the integration of safety considerations across all sectors and stakeholders. This review uncovers injury prevention opportunities within broader global priorities such as urbanisation, population shifts, water safeguarding and corporate social responsibility. We demonstrate the relevance of injury prevention efforts to the SDG agenda beyond the health goal (SDG 3) and the two specific road safety targets (SDG 3.6 and SDG 11.2), highlighting 13 additional SDGs of relevance. We argue that all involved in injury prevention are at a critical juncture where we can continue with the status quo and expect to see more of the same, or mobilise the global community in an 'Injury Prevention in All Policies' approach.
Date Issued
2021-03-22
Date Acceptance
2020-08-14
Citation
Injury Prevention, 2021, 27 (2), pp.166-171
ISSN
1353-8047
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
Start Page
166
End Page
171
Journal / Book Title
Injury Prevention
Volume
27
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This article has been accepted for publication in Injury Prevention following peer review. The definitive copyedited, typeset version Ma, T. et al., Out of the silos: embedding injury prevention into the Sustainable Development Goals, Injury Prevention, vol. 27, issue 2: 166–171, is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043850
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32917743
PII: injuryprev-2020-043850
Subjects
advocacy
disability
policy
public health
risk/determinants
safe community
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Date Publish Online
2020-09-11