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Injury data is a key EuroSafe programme aimed at providing stakeholders of injury prevention with relevant data on accidents and injuries in the EU. Access to accident and injury data is indispensable for an effective deployment of injury prevention and safety promotion policies within the EU.
In policy areas where the need for injury information have arisen long ago, specific surveillance systems have been set up, which are now being harmonized and established at EU level. For work safety, information from declarations to the insurance (public insurance, social security scheme, or private insurance scheme) or to competent authorities (usually the labour inspectorate) provides the base for the European statistics on accidents at work (ESAW). For road traffic injuries, police reports provide the information that many MSs submit to the Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe (CARE).
For other areas, in particular for consumer safety, data from national samples of hospitals provides the information published by the European Injury Database (IDB). Since 1981, several project initiatives have been taken by the Commission, with the support of an increasing number of Member States, to develop EU-level exchange of injury data collected in accident and emergency departments at general hospitals. At present, thirteen MSs are on a routine base collecting injury data in a sample of hospitals and delivering these data to the Commission, line with the so-called IDB-methodology3. Nine MSs are currently pilot testing and extension towards a full EU-coverage is to be foreseen.
Read more about IDB-programme and injury data access on following pages (click left hand menu)
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