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Mission
The mission of the EuroSafe Injury data-programme is to initiate and coordinate initiatives that will lead to a common hospital based surveillance system for injury prevention, by 2015. Such a system should report in sufficient detail on the external causes of injuries and cover all member states. Countries shall be required to routinely reporting these injury statistics, as part of the European system of health statistics.
Goals
EU-wide injury surveillance should
- cover all Member States including EEA and EU candidate countries (“EU33”);
- cover all injuries (unintentional and violence) and provide severity indicators;
- serve the needs of the main stakeholders (public health, consumer safety, safety practitioners) at EU as well at MS level;
- be robust enough to become mandatory in the framework of the EU Regulation on Community statistics on public health, from 2016 onwards
Rationale
What information is available at national and European level, it tends to focus on fatal injuries (compiled for Europe in the WHO-mortality database) , and so the policies do. However, deaths represent only a small part of the total injury spectrum as hundreds more casualties due to accidents or violence are being treated in hospitals.
As in most countries information on the causes and circumstances of these injuries are missing in hospital records, most governments are in the dark over how to address the increasing burden of injuries in their countries.
Therefore it is important to enhance the reporting of injury cases, in particular the most serious cases that are being treated in accident and emergency departments at hospitals.
Over the past years an increasing number of countries are collecting injury data and are able to exchange those data at EU level. These data are being made accessible for public interest and research needs through the EU webgate IDB.
Coordination office
EuroSafe:
- Dr Rupert Kisser, IDB - programme director, Rupert Kisser
- Dr Wim Rogmans, JAMIE - project leader, Wim Rogmans
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