Introduction:
International Sace community movement was introduced in Korea as a community injury prevention and safety promotion program in 2004. It is a long-lasting project with a comprehensive and multi-level approach, so evaluating the effect is difficult. There are some evaluations on separate unit programs by injury mechanism but not community level.

Objectives:
This study aims to examine how residents' injury mortality varies depending on the implementation of the community-based injury prevention program with an international safe community model and to analyze the program's effectiveness.

Methods:
To this end, it analyzed the descriptive statistics and annual variation to understand the targeted regions' characteristics and applied the synthetic control method(SCM) to find out whether significant changes occurred before and after the designation as International Safe Community.

Results:
Using the control group synthesis method, the International Safe Community Project's effect on reducing the injury mortality rate was confirmed. The unintentional injury mortality rate was influenced by national policies other than local government policies, and the difference in effect between project implementation and non-execution areas was very small. However, the difference in intentional injury mortality rate according to whether or not the International Safe Community Project was carried out was significant. The intentional injury mortality rate of the treatment and control groups before the international safe community designation showed a similar trend. Still, after designation, the intentional injury mortality rate in the treatment group was significantly lower than that of the control group.

Conclusion:
To prevent injury to the community, it is necessary to conduct policy establishment cyclically, customize program planning and project monitoring and feedback based on local conditions, and ensure the project's sustainability. For the active participation of members, various efforts at the level of local governments should be made.

Hyupsung University - Hwaseong city - Gyeonggi province - South KoreaMin kyoung Kim So Hyeong Kim