Human rights-based approach to unintentional injury prevention
Autor: | Mark Ryan, J Morag MacKay |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Human Rights
media_common.quotation_subject Acknowledgement Health Promotion Violence Statute 03 medical and health sciences Accident Prevention 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention Humans 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Sustainable development 030505 public health Human rights business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health Status Disparities Public relations Human development (humanity) Health promotion Cultural rights Wounds and Injuries 0305 other medical science business |
Zdroj: | Injury Prevention. 24:i67-i73 |
ISSN: | 1475-5785 1353-8047 |
Popis: | Unintentional injury remains an important global public health issue, and efforts to address it are often hampered by a lack of visibility, leadership, funding, infrastructure, capacity and evidence of effective solutions. The growing support for a socioecological model and a systems approach to prevention—along with the acknowledgement that injury prevention can be a byproduct of salutogenic design and activities—has increased opportunities to integrate unintentional injury prevention into other health promotion and disease prevention agendas. It has also helped to integrate it into the broader human development agenda through the Sustainable Development Goals. This growing support provides new opportunities to use a human rights-based approach to address the issue. The human rights-based approach is based on the idea that all members of society have social, economic and cultural rights and that governments are responsible and accountable for upholding those rights. It incorporates a systems approach, addresses inequity and places an emphasis on the most vulnerable corners of humanity. It also leverages legal statutes and provides organisations with the opportunity to build existing international goals and benchmarks into their monitoring efforts. This paper describes the approach and highlights how it can leverage attention and investment to address current challenges for unintentional injury. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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