[sustran] Fifth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control

[Dinesh Mohan]

The Fifth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control is scheduled to
be held in Delhi 5-8 March 2000. This is the fifth conference in a series
of which the first four were held in Stockholm, Atlanta, Melbourne and
Amsterdam.  Each conference has been attended attended by about 1,000
professionals from around the world.

The conference is "Sharing Experiences: Blending Perspectives". The
conference will adopt a Charter on People's Right to Safety". Twelve
satellite meetings are also being organised just before or after the
conference. The conference encourages participants to exchange ideas and
practical experiences in injury control and safety promotion in the
following sectors:

-	Transportation
-	Work place
-	Sports and leisure
-	Domestic accidents
-	Violence
-	Suicide
-	Emergency and pre-hospital care
-	Legislation
-	Environmental changes, education and safety promotion
-	Safe Communities

The conference is being hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology.

Sponsors:

-	World Health organisation
-	Ministry of Surface Transport, Government of India
-	National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, USA
-	Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, USA
-	Confederation of Indian Industry
-	Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
-	Government of the State of Uttar Pradesh, India

LAST DATE for Abstracts:	30 JUNE 1999

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Ms Arati Walia
CONFER/FIWOCO
D - 1 Kalindi Colony
New Delhi 110 065
India

Tel:	++91 11 691 9377, 684 9399
FAX:	++91 11 684 8343, 692 9541
E-mail:	awconfer at del2.vsnl.net.in

Website:	http://www.ciionline.org/fiwoco/




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Dinesh Mohan
Professor and Coordinator
Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (Room MS 808)
Indian Intitute of Technology
Hauz Khas
New Delhi 110016

Phone:	(+91 11) 685 8703   &	686 1977

FAX:	(+91 11) 685 8703   &   685 1169

Email:	dmohan at cbme.iitd.ernet.in

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