Bone and Joint Decade
2000 - 2010
Promoting Musculoskeletal Health
Bone and Joint Health
“the business of every Australian”
Bone and Joint Decade – 2000 - 2010
•Created in 1998 and launched in 2000
•Endorsed by the UN, WHO, World Bank,
Vatican and health ministries in 63 countries
•Aim to reduce the impact of musculoskeletal
conditions across the globe
•Steered by an International Co-ordinating
Council and delivered by National Action
Networks in over 60 countries – now up to 73
•An umbrella organisation that brings together
professional, scientific and patient
organisations
Bone and Joint Decade – 2000 - 2010
Identifying the burden of disease
• Published with WHO “The Burden of MS
Conditions at the Start of the New
Millennium”
• WHO – ILAR – BJD 2005 Summit on the
Burden of Disease in the Developing World
Bone and Joint Decade – 2000 – 2010
Raising standards of care
• European Action Towards Better MS Health
(supported by the EU)
• Ensuring MSC within the WHO European Strategy
for Non-communicable Diseases
• MSC recommendations in the World Bank and
WHO project for Disease Control Priorities in
Developing Countries
• Guidelines by the BJD Task Force on Neck Pain
• BJD Global Minimum Standards of Care for
Chronic Pain
Bone and Joint Decade 2000 – 2010
•BJD global standards for chronic MS pain; hip
fractures; undergraduate education
•WHO ICD Revision MS Topic Advisory Group
•Road Safety including World Report on Road
Traffic Injury Prevention (UN)Global Forum for
Improved Trauma Care
Bone and Joint Decade – 2000 – 2010
Australia’s Participation
Aims Achieved
•To ensure that MS conditions are among the
leading major health concerns in the minds and
actions of opinion forums and decision makers
throughout the world
•To raise public awareness of the growing
burden
•To empower patients through educational
campaigns
•To advance and improve research and
diagnosis on prevention, and treatment
Bone and Joint Decade – 2000 – 2010
Australia’s Participation
Australian Network
Coordinator
Member on International Steering Committee
16 affiliate organisations
Programs
Parliament House Summit; Public Meetings
Involvement in Global Collaborative Research
Projects; Website; International BJD Network
Meetings; Think Tanks; Partnership with
affiliates at conferences and promotions;
Published articles; Promotional activities; DVD
Bone and Joint Decade
2010 - 2020
The Next Ten Years
“Keep People Moving”
Bone and Joint Decade – 2010 – 2020
The BJD will continue to work
• To reduce the burden and cost of
musculoskeletal disorders to individuals, carers
and society
• To promote musculoskeletal health and
musculoskeletal science worldwide
Bone and Joint Decade – 2010 – 2020
MS conditions - The Need for the Bone and Joint Decade
• MS disorders are common in all countries and
cultures.
• They are the most common cause of severe longterm pain and physical disability
• Hundreds of millions of people are affected around
the world
• Their impact is pervasive; they are a major burden on
health and social care
MS Conditions - The Need for the Bone and Joint Decade
• They have the worst impact on quality of
life of many chronic diseases,
• There are effective ways of preventing
and controlling MS conditions but these
are not being implemented with equity
• MS conditions are not a priority in most
health systems
• There is enormous unmet need and
avoidable disability.
Bone and Joint Decade – 2010 – 2020
Significant achievements over the last Ten Years:
• Education
• Global undergraduate core curriculum for
musculoskeletal conditions
• IOF – BJD – ISFR Osteoporosis education Kit
• Advocacy
• Supporting development of patient organisations
and providing advocacy training
Bone and Joint Decade – 2000 - 2010
Reducing the impact of trauma
• WHO-BJD-EFORT Partnership for
Improved Trauma Care
• Delivered a decade of action for Road
Safety including World Report on Road
Traffic Injury Prevention (endorsed by the
UN)
Launching initiatives in areas of need
• Fragility Fracture Network launched 2009
dedicated to
improving osteoporotic fracture
management
Bone and Joint Decade – 2000 - 2010
Vision for the next Ten Years
• To ensure that musculoskeletal disorders are among
the leading major health concerns in the minds and
actions of opinion formers throughout the world
• To fully realise the possibilities for prevention and
treatment throughout the world
• To ensure that prevention, treatment and care of
people with musculoskeletal disorders is of a high
standard and consistently accessible
• To improve the health-related quality of life for people
with, or at risk of, musculoskeletal disorders.
Bone and Joint Decade – 2010 – 2020
Our Key Audiences
• Our target audiences
• WHO; UN
• Regional policy makers, such as EU
• National policy makers
• Non-specialist health care professionals
• Our mobilising audiences
• Professional, scientific and patient organisations relevant
to musculoskeletal health advocating for change
• Our enabling audiences
• Sponsors; Partners
• Our supporting audience
• Public
Bone and Joint Decade – 2010 – 2020
Strategic Action Plan
• To focus resources on achieving the global objective of gaining
recognition of the importance of musculoskeletal conditions
globally, regionally and nationally
• Resources will be organised around the delivery of eight core
programs, each aimed at achieving one of the specific
objectives of the Decade.
• The programs will be steered by the International Coordinating
Council, and delivered by National Action Networks, supporting
organisations and individuals working together, with the support
of the Bone and Joint Decade.
Bone and Joint Decade – 2010 – 2020
The 8 Programmes of the Strategic Action Plan:
allied to an objective that reflects the priorities of the BJD
1.
Advocacy: To raise awareness of public and policy makers of the burden of
musculoskeletal conditions and effective prevention and treatment
2.
Partnership: To develop sustainable global, regional and national networks
3.
Surveillance: To increase knowledge of the suffering and cost to society
associated with musculoskeletal conditions
4.
Public and patient education: To empower people to gain priority for their own
care
5.
Prevention and control: To improve access to cost-effective prevention and
treatment
6.
Research: To increase research that will advance understanding of
musculoskeletal disorders and improve prevention and treatment
7.
Knowledge management: To provide access to information that will support the
objectives of the BJD
8.
Organisation fit for purpose: To develop a sustainable global organisation
able to carry out the mission, objectives and programmes of the
Strategic Action Plan for 2010-2020
Bone and Joint Decade – 2010 – 2020
What makes us unique
• BJD is an umbrella, linking networks of national
organisations, including health care professionals and
patients - providing a unified voice and a global reach
• BJD is the only organisation to bring together all
stakeholders worldwide to consider all MS conditions
and provide access to high-level policy makers
• BJD focuses on health policy and evidence with a
mandate to develop strategies and set the agenda,
aimed at improving quality of life by implementing
effective prevention and treatment
• BJD continues work to reduce the burden and cost of
musculoskeletal disorders to individuals, carers and
society by promoting musculoskeletal health and
science worldwide.
Bone and Joint Decade – 2010 – 2020
The only organisation that “keeps people
moving” by lobbying and advocating on behalf
of everyone across the globe dealing with
musculoskeletal conditions
Decade of Action for Road Safety
2011 - 2020
Decade Launch Worldwide – 11 May
Global initiative instigated by a UN
Resolution and co-sponsored by 90
countries, including Australia
Two round table discussions have been held
at Parliament House supported by Catherine
King, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for
Infrastructure and Transport and Health and
Ageing
Decade of Action for Road Safety
2011 - 2020
Statistics
1.2 m fatalities globally from road crashes
20 – 60 m people sustaining non-fatal trafficrelated injuries each year
Decade Goal to stabilise and reduce the
number of deaths and injuries
Australia
1970 3798 killed; 33,000 severely injured
Australia amongst the worst in the world
30.4 deaths per 100,000 population
2010 – 1368 deaths at a rate of 6.1 deaths
per 100,000 population
Decade of Action for Road Safety
2011 - 2020
Goals
Road safety management; Safer vehicles
Safer drivers; Safer roads; Post-crash care
Australian BJD Network to work with
Australian and international senior road
safety professionals from industry,
government, academia, police and road
user groups and add the healthcare arm
Decade of Action for Road Safety – 2011 – 2010
Affiliates working on the goals are
Australian Orthopaedic Association
ANZ Trauma Society
RACP Faculty of Rehabilitation
Pedestrian Council of Australia
The two MS groups will work side by side