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| WG on Quantifying post-injury levels of functioning and disability |
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This Working Group focuses on empirical work in the area of post-injury levels of functioning and disability. Disabilities (i.e. reduced levels of functioning resulting from diseases or injuries) are increasingly recognised as an important component of a population’s health. However, within the injury field, empirical, comparable and representative epidemiological data on the incidence, severity and duration of disabilities are scarce and incomplete.
For the majority of injury patients there is hardly any empirical disability data available. In addition, the available knowledge is difficult to interpret. Filling these data gaps is a prerequisite for the meaningful execution of burden of injury studies and studies into the cost-effectiveness of injury control measures.
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