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| EU Injury Data and Reporting Services: Comprehensive information made available! |
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04/17/2009 A new service to provide comprehensive injury data is now being offered by EuroSafe and the IDB Network,
with the support of the Directorate General for Health and Consumers. This new service is part of the PHASE (Public Health Actions for a Safer Europe) project, led by EuroSafe, and aims to provide relevant, comprehensive and up-to-date injury information in the following areas of injury prevention and safety promotion: home and leisure accidents, product related injuries, sports injuries, traffic accidents, work place accidents and violence related injuries.
Why the need for comprehensive information?
Various information systems have been created in past years in order to provide easy access to the huge amount of data that is being routinely collected by health and safety administrations. However, data is not information and in the highly fragmented area of injury prevention the need for ‘data clearing’ – turning data into reliable information - has become more and more evident.
Comprehensive data sources
EU Injury Data services uses a wide spectrum of data sources at both the international and national levels:
· ‘All Injury’ data and home and leisure accident data from the EU Injury Database (IDB) and the national IDB partners – the core of the data services;
· General injury mortality and morbidity from ESTAT, WHO and other international data providers;
· Specific injury data for workplace and road traffic accidents from data sources like ESAW, CARE or IRTAD; and
· Special topic data (burn centres, poison information centres).
Reporting services
Ad hoc requests for specific injury statistics can be submitted. Depending on the volume of the request and the intended use a fee may be charged. Further, there are a number of free reporting services to which you can subscribe:
· Annual report ‘Injuries in the EU’
· Fact sheets about current injury topics
· Updates and news from the main EU data systems
· EU wide national injury report reviews
For which purpose can the information be used?
· accident pattern analysis and priority setting
· evidence checks and product safety risk assessment
· prevention campaigns and injury patterns
· injury severity analysis
· identification of settings and circumstances
· cross sector analysis
· injury costing
Who can benefit from the EU Injury Data services?
The EU Injury Data services is a valuable resource for all those working in the area of injury prevention and safety promotion and would like to use injury data and figures to underpin arguments and proposals but have difficulty accessing appropriate data or interpreting the data provided.
In particular, the EU Injury Data services is for:
· public health, health and safety administrations at the national and EU levels
· research institutions, international and national NGOs in the field
· consumer organisations and standardisation bodies, trade and industry
· the media, general and special interest
Therefore, if you are in need of injury information please submit your query by filling in the form at:
http://www.eurosafe.eu.com/csi/eurosafe2006.nsf/wwwVwContent/l3injurydataservices.htm and send this to injurydata@kfv.at
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