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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. Welcome to the 2006 meeting of the International Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury Statistics Lois Fingerhut, Chair.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics Welcome to the 2006 meeting of theInternational Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury StatisticsLois Fingerhut, Chair
International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics • An international activity of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) • Annual meetings since May 1994 • Visit and comment on our website www.cdc.gov/nchs/advice.htm
Goals of the ICE onInjury Statistics • Provide essential data and tools for understanding causes of injury and effective means of prevention • Provide a forum for international experts in injury prevention and control to discuss data issues
Participating Countries • Early members: • Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, England and Wales, France, Israel, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, St. Lucia, United States • More recent participants from: • Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Thailand, Trinidad • Today we welcome participants from: • Bangladesh*, Japan, Taiwan
Organizational Collaborations • Pan American Health Organization • European Union/Commission • World Health Organization (WHO) Center Heads for Classification • Washington Group (measurement of disability) • CDC (3 Centers- NCHS, NCIPC & NIOSH) • New to this meeting: • International Society for Violence and Injury Prevention (ISVIP) • World Bank (Transport Sector)
Our 2-day agenda • WHO panel • ISVIP and the World Conference • International traffic injury issues • Measures of severity • Main injury • Indicators • Other ICE updates • Nonfatal injury surveillance • ICD-11 • Future of the ICE on Injury Statistics
AdvICE list… Send SMTP message to listserv@cdc.gov and type in the body of e-mail "Subscribe AdvICE-Users" followed by your full name.
Tackling the Toll of Injuries • August 22, 2006, Washington Post • Fred Rivara and Charles Mock • Urging far more international attention to injury prevention
Thanks to… • Carla Battle, Courtesy Associates- Travel liaison • Tammy Stewart-Prather, Injury ICE web page coordinator • Hank Weiss and team for recording our sessions • Ladonna Crayton for her photocopying all of the presentations and handouts! (lcrayton@cdc.gov)
Updates to agenda as of Sept 6.. • Fazlur Rahman from Bangladesh was unable to obtain his visa… • Saakje Mulder had a sudden and unavoidable conflict at work • Elizabeth Ward sends regrets at not being able to attend • Safe Kids World wide representative is Jacquie Dukehart.