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Welcome to the 2008 meeting of the International Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury Statistics

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. Welcome to the 2008 meeting of the International Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury Statistics. International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics.

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Welcome to the 2008 meeting of the International Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury Statistics

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  1. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics Welcome to the 2008 meeting of theInternational Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury Statistics

  2. 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 our website www.cdc.gov/nchs/advice.htm

  3. 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

  4. Participating Countries • Early members… • Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, St. Lucia, United States • Recent participants from… • Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Trinidad

  5. Organizational Collaborations • Pan American Health Organization • European Union/Commission • World Health Organization (WHO) • Center Heads for Classification • Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability • Washington Group (measurement of disability) • International Society for Violence and Injury Prevention (ISVIP)

  6. Today we also welcome • Brazil, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Wales along with new faces from participating countries and organizations • Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, United States

  7. Thanks to many of you… • But special thanks go to my NCHS Injury Team colleagues • Margaret Warner • Li-Hui Chen • Gwen Bergen

  8. Logistics: Our 1/2-day agenda • Folders contain agenda, participant list, information on joining ICE List-serve, briefing on Indicators • Agenda: • Cross-national injury indicators- primary focus • Progress from workgroups • State of the Injury ICE • Relationships with other organizations

  9. Cross-national injury indicators • Special thanks to Maria Segui-Gomez and Colin Cryer for spearheading this session • Take note of the charts on the walls.. • While we brainstorming about indicators do not lose sight of the validation criteria • Note the charts related to data comparability derived from the validation criteria

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