Objectives

• To explore the ability of the former EHLASS to capture sports injuries, analyse currently available data which are isolated or underutilised at national level and point out deficiencies or inadequencies.
• To ascertain the burden of sports injuries in EU Member States by type of injury, using complementary sources of information and ad hoc approaches
• To determine person-time of exposure by type of sports activity and to estimate exposure specific risks in order to propose policy making prevention strategies to reduce the incidence of those injuries
• To identify situations and conditions - by sport activity - conductive to increased risk taking, including performance enhancing substances (i.e.doping)
• To promote the exchange of information about the use of sports injuries data.
• To develop an agreed upon methodological prototype which will facilitate the effort for the collection of representative, comparable and high quality information data sets, as well as the uniform and comprehensive analysis of sports injuries.