A cost-benefit analysis of the community-based injury prevention programmein Motala, Sweden - a WHO Safe Community

The objective in this study was to calculate costs and benefits caused by a safe community injury prevention programme in Motala, Sweden. The study de sign was a quasi-experimental evaluation involving an intervention populati on and a non-random control population. All injuries were recorded before a nd after an intervention programme. The presented calculations show that co sts of injuries in a societal perspective decreased from 116 million Swedis h Crowns (SEK) to 96 million SEK, while the cost for the intervention was e stimated at approximately 10 million SEK. Thus, the safe community injury p revention programme in Motala should be judged as cost-effective.