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IDB an indispensable injury surveillance tool for the European Union

IDB an indispensable injury surveillance tool for the European Union Working together to make Europe a safer place Characteristics IDB - Data collection at Emergency Departments - Harmonised data - National use + use at EU-level Scope IDB Currently - Home and leisure injuries

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IDB an indispensable injury surveillance tool for the European Union

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  1. IDB an indispensable injury surveillance tool for the European Union Working together to make Europe a safer place

  2. Characteristics IDB - Data collection at Emergency Departments - Harmonised data - National use + use at EU-level

  3. Scope IDB Currently - Home and leisure injuries - Unintentional injuries, or - All injuries Future - All injuries

  4. Organisation - EuroSafe

  5. Core activities EuroSafe - Enhancing European injury data exchange - Disseminating good practices in injury prevention - Connecting policy makers, stakeholders and practitioners - Monitor, review and influence injury related policies

  6. Organisation - EuroSafe - Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit, Austria

  7. Financing Member States - Data collection European Union - Central database - Overall coordination - Development of tools

  8. All Injury coding manual - Based on ICECI version 1.2 - Core data elements (excl Alcohol + Drug use) Level of codes (excl. Intent) - Modules: Violence, Transport, Sports Most data elements

  9. Translations - Ready: German, Dutch, French, Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Portuguese, Slovakian, Slovenian - In preparation: Greek, Polish, Swedish - Planned: Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Turkish

  10. Participation Working together to make Europe a safer place

  11. Numbers of cases - 2004 - Home and leisure injuries - 6 countries - 41 hospitals => 250,000 records

  12. Accessibility - EU-website: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/idb - Incidence rates per Member State - Public access to aggregated data

  13. Reporting at EU level Working together to make Europe a safer place

  14. ‘Injuries’ on the EU political agenda (1) EU-Commission proposals: • Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on Actions for a Safer Europe A strategic framework for Member States to prioritise their actions to reduce accidents and injuries. • Council Recommendation on the prevention of injury and the promotion of safety Member States as signatories pledge themselves to fullfil the objectives of Actions for a Safer Europe

  15. ‘Injuries’ on the EU political agenda (2) EU-Commission adopted • Programme for Community Action in the field of Health 2007-2013 The proposed framework for funding projects related to health, including accidents and injuries, 2007-2013 http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ WHO European Region adopted - Resolution (RC55) on giving priority to prevention of violence and unintentional injury in the European Region www.who.dk/Governance/resolutions/2005/

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