Bone and Joint Decade Major Publications

A Bone and Joint Decade report 2005, Woolf A et al.
European Action Towards Better Musculoskeletal Health: A Guide to the Prevention and Treatment of Musculoskeletal Conditions for the Healthcare Practitioner and Policy Maker


European Action towards Better Musculoskeletal Health—A Public Health Strategy to Reduce the Burden of Musculoskeletal Conditions
 
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br) 2004; 86-B; 958-961
K E Dreinhöfer, J-M Féron, A Herrera, R Hube, O Johnell, L Lidgren, K Miles, L Panarella, H Simpson, W A Wallace, Orthopaedic surgeons and fragility fractures

The Burden of Musculoskeletal Conditions at the Start of the New Millennium:The World Health Organization and the Bone and Joint Decade worked in partnership to develop this 218-page technical report, which establishes the burden of musculoskeletal conditions around the world and recommends how the burden can be monitored within the frame­work of the WHO Burden of Disease project. The report can be found at http://whqlibdoc.who.int/trs/WHO_TRS_919.pdf

The Bone and Joint Decade Task Force on Education developed Recommendations for Core Competencies which all doctors should have at the point of graduation from any medical school. The recommendations, published in 2004, emphasise training in basic knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions and essential clinical skills, and include proposals for who should teach, in what settings, and at what stages of the curriculum. The recommendations (Woolf AD, Walsh NE, Åkesson K. Global Core Recommendations for a Musculoskeletal Undergraduate Curriculum. Annals of Rheumatic Disease. 2004; 63: 517-524.) are available at: http://www.boneandjointdecade.org/default.aspx?contid=1130