Muang Nan Municipality Safe Community Thailand
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Application to the World Health Organization, Collaborating Center on Community Safety Promotion for the Designation of Muang Nan Municipality Safe Community Thailand As a Member of the International Safe Community Network Contents Congratulation messages 3 General Information 1. Introduction 6 2. About Nan Province 7 3. Background of Muang Nan Municipality Safe Community 8 4. The Commencement and process of Community 13 Indicators for International Safe Community 1. An infrastructure based on partnership and collaborations, 17 governed by a cross- sectional group that is responsible for safety promotion in their community 1.1 Working Group of Safe Community 17 1.2 Collaborations and Networks 19 1.3 Financial Support 19 1.4 Media and Communication 19 2. Long-term, sustainable programs covering both genders and all 22 ages, environments, and situations 2.1 Programs for different age groups 23 2.2 Road Safety 26 2.3 Drowning Prevention 30 2.4 Improvement of Emergency Response, Disaster Prevention 33 and First Aid Capacity 2.5 Safety and injury prevention during festivals 40 2.6 Safety in Sport and Recreation Safety 45 2.7 Violence and Abuse Prevention 46 2.8 Food and Product Safety 48 2.9 Home Safety 51 2.10 Occupational Safety 52 2.11 Others in associated with safety and health promotion 53 1 3. Programs that target high-risk groups and environments, and 55 programs that promote safety for vulnerable groups 3.1 Child Safety 55 3.2 Elderly Safety 71 3.3 Environmental risk 73 4. Programs that document the frequency and causes of injuries 76 4.1 Injury Record system 76 4.2 Safety Round system 87 4.3 Risk Behavior Record system 88 5. Evaluation measures to assess their programs, processes and 89 the effects of change 5.1 Evaluation by External Agencies 89 5.2 Internal Evaluation 90 6. Ongoing participation in national and international Safe 95 Communities networks 6.1 Participation in Domestic Conference 95 6.2 Participation in International Conference 98 6.3 Inspection and Field Trip 99 6.4 Award and outstanding performance 99 Future plan 101 2 Congratulation Message from Nan Governor I feel love and appreciate the Nan Province as a city with full of fascinating and unique culture. Nan is a peaceful city where people have a simple lifestyle and are generous. Nan is a safe city where domestic and foreign tourists in an increased number can feel safe and secured wherever they visit. In order to ensure Nan is a safe city, it is greatly required the cooperation of local people. Members of communities should be able to participate in every step starting from planning, decision making, utilizing local valuable resources, implementing by local people to create a continual risk management system and preventive action plans. To achieve the extent of safe community, the communities must be empowerment, have a network integration, strong lateral collaboration, and decisive determination in achieving safe community in conformity with the World Health Organization (WHO) indicators. The management of safe community project in Nan province has been operated under the basis of cooperation and strong partnership networks from a variety networking teams. The operations have been appropriately adapted into the context of community and its needs. The operations also focus on creating long term safety awareness by providing knowledge, understanding, skills, and promoting safety culture and climate in community. For example, the persuasions of having local lifestyle and cultural traditions on a safety basis, the public promotion campaign to ban alcohol consumption and sales during festivals, regulations on the service hours of entertainment places and children disallowance, the uncompromising control measures of games/internet shops, promotion of public security, public mind, security volunteers in communities. I sincerely congratulate Muang Nan Municipality and people in the municipality that have been joining the safe community programs intensively and consistently; all which bring about a safe and peaceful city, and delightful people. I sincerely wish that the people in Muang Nan municipality will remain the communities in a sustainable safe practice forever. (Mr.Chumporn Sangmanee) The Governor of Nan Province 3 Congratulation Message from the Mayor of Nan Province What I can concern as being received an opportunity to be a Mayor from people in Muang Nan municipality is that the members of Muang Nan municipality all desire for safety. Communities in Muang Nan municipality are centuries-old communities in which the members in communities have long been connected together. Each community has its own fascinating and unique culture but also maintains the simple and meaningful lifestyle with a strong social capital. The safety operations in Muang Nan municipality have been based on the collaboration from a variety networking teams. However, the major mobilizing team is Nan hospital, Muang Nan municipality and community organizations in Muang Nan municipal. In safe community programs, we have created public safety knowledge and awareness that safety should be responsible by everyone in the community to make their own life and communities secured. All members are required to participate from the vision setting, planning, operating and results of actions. We have created a safe playground for children; as well as, safe child care centers, safe schools. We have promoted safe awareness and disciplines among members, including setting surveillance volunteers. We also have uncompromising measures to ban alcohol consumption during festivals which include prohibiting advertising signs, sales, and consumption of alcohol - beer in Muang Nan municipal. An effective system of flood prevention in the municipality, emergency and call center service for public complaints, safe toilets for the elderly, and community nurses to care for the health of people in the community are also set up. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Child Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Center (CSIP) that enlighten us in creating safe community activities. Special thank is extended to the representatives from World Health Organization (WHO) on their assessment and for their valuable advice. I would also like to thank all the related networking teams, including people in Muang Nan municipality who participated in safe community program so that all communities in Muang Nan municipality becomes a safe, livable and pleasant community. I hope that communities in Muang Nan municipality will keep going on the safe community activities from generations to generations in order that our communities can continue the sustainable development and can be a safety learning center in demonstrating to other communities which can finally be extended to the safety in provincial and national level. ( Mr. Surapol Thiansuttra) Mayor of Nan Province 4 Congratulation Message from the Director of Nan Hospital Injury is a major problem that occurs with people of all age groups and genders. But injury is preventable. With the concerns about a large amount of suffer and loss caused by injuries each year, Nan Hospital, the agency responsible for health care, has collaborated with Muang Nan municipality and communities in promoting safety to people of all age groups in order to reduce preventable injuries which will lead to reduced losses and damages from the injury. To participate in solving injury problem, it requires injury data and analysis for implementation planning and to raise safety awareness of the individual. Only safety awareness and no life negligence can reduce the injury risk and lead to safety culture of all people in society. On behalf of the Director of Nan Hospital, I would like to express my appreciation for the dedication of community volunteers and staff in all organizations who have tried to create a safe community. Although we have tried to prevent the injury and raised the safety promotion at some extent, there are also many activities that we all must work together to further enhance the safety in communities. I hope that the efforts from all of us to reduce losses-related injuries and enhance the longevity of Nan people as stated in the Muang Nan Municipal Vision as ‘The Town of Longevity’ will remain a better quality of life to all community members. (Pisanu Kantipong) Director of Nan Hospital 5 Introduction Accident and violence is a major cause of death in Thailand. Thai people died from accidents and violence about 43,000 people per year or at the mortal rate of 69/100,000. The highest mortal rate related to accidents and violence found in teenagers and young adults. In addition, accidents and violence is also a leading cause of death in children as well. Each year, there were children aged 1-14 years died from accidents and violence about 3,400 cases, representing a death rate of 22/100. Based on the significant rationales, Muang Nan Municipality in cooperation with safety networking agencies such as Nan hospital, Nan provincial police, Nan provincial social development and human security office, Nan children’s shelter, Nan education service area office 1, Nan army officers, communities and schools in Muang Nan municipality, agreed to implement the "Muang Nan Municipality, the Safe Community" program to encourage communities, schools and child centers to have proper safety management based on the self-learning center approach, the injury surveillance system integrated from Nan hospital to communities, the collaborations between public networks and local organizations in safety works to promote safety in individual, group and community level. 6 Nan Province Nan is located in the upper north of Thailand. The province is adjacent with Lao People's Democratic Republic to the northern and eastern part, Uttaradit province to the south, and Phayao and Phrae province to the west. Generally, its geography is bordered by mountains from north to south, especially along the north-eastern border which is adjacent to Lao. Doi Phu Kha in Pua district is the highest pinnacle at 1980 meters height.