ABSTRACT
Generally speaking there is the same contradiction between the concepts of injury prevention and safety promotion as between disease prevention and health promotion. The starting point of injury prevention is an outcome of a process where the medical view decides the prevention activities in the same way as in disease and disease prevention. However, safety as well as health is a much broader concept and safety promotion is based in the society and community and how the individual or populations understand the concept of safety and what measures need to be taken. Such actions might lead to prevention of injuries or might not.
