Department of Health, Taipei City Government

Accidental injury is a preventable health problem. Injury reduction and security improvement are the national health goals in 2020. In 2014, the death rate of accidental injury in this city is 17.00 per 100 thousand people, ranking 9th place, with the top three causes being transportation accidental injury (death rate of 5.27 per 100 thousand people), the miscellaneous (4.53 per 100 thousand people) and falling (4.38 per 100 thousand people).

Since 2006, the city started to promote Security Community in districts, involved communities include 6 districts of Neihu, Chungcheng, Wenshan, Nangang, Datong and Xinyi; taking communities as platforms, various forces from industry, authority, academia and people were integrated into the promotion team; with resources from public and private sectors as well as communities, security problems were actively discovered and resolved in community environments; districts achieved fruitful results by adjusting measures to their community conditions to make promotions in home, school, public field, transportation and other security policies.

In 2005, Neihu District was certified, becoming a International Security Community, 94th in the world and the first in the city; Chungcheng District was also certified as a International Security Community in 2008; Wenshan, Nangang, Datong, Xinyi distrcts certified as International Security Community in 2010. 6 Security Communities in the city have been re-certified as International Security Communities in the end of 2015, and the Neihu Security Community took the lead to pass the 3rd certification.