IDB an indispensable injury surveillance tool for the European Union

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IDB an indispensable injury surveillance tool
for the European Union
Working together to make Europe a safer place
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Characteristics IDB

• - Data collection at Emergency Departments
• - Harmonised data
• - National use use at EU-level

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Scope IDB

• Currently
• - Home and leisure injuries
• - Unintentional injuries, or
• - All injuries

Future - All injuries
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Organisation

• - EuroSafe

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Core activities EuroSafe

• - Enhancing European injury data exchange
• - Disseminating good practices in injury
  prevention
• - Connecting policy makers, stakeholders and
• practitioners
• - Monitor, review and influence injury related
  policies

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Organisation

• - EuroSafe
• - Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit, Austria

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Financing

• Member States
• - Data collection
• European Union
• - Central database
• - Overall coordination
• - Development of tools

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All Injury coding manual

• - Based on ICECI version 1.2
• - Core data elements (excl Alcohol Drug use)
• Level of codes (excl. Intent)
• - Modules Violence, Transport, Sports
• Most data elements

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Translations

• - Ready
• German, Dutch, French, Czech, Estonian,
• Latvian, Portuguese, Slovakian, Slovenian
• - In preparation
• Greek, Polish, Swedish
• - Planned
• Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Turkish

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Participation
Working together to make Europe a safer place
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Numbers of cases

• - 2004
• - Home and leisure injuries
• - 6 countries
• - 41 hospitals
• gt 250,000 records

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Accessibility

• - EU-website https//webgate.ec.europa.eu/idb
• - Incidence rates per Member State
• - Public access to aggregated data

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Reporting at EU level
Working together to make Europe a safer place
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Injuries on the EU political agenda (1)

• EU-Commission proposals
• Communication from the Commission to the
  European Parliament and the Council on
  Actions for a Safer
  Europe
• A strategic framework for Member States to
  prioritise their actions to reduce accidents and
  injuries.
• Council Recommendation on the prevention of
  injury and the promotion of safety
• Member States as signatories pledge themselves
  to fullfil the objectives of Actions for a Safer
  Europe

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Injuries on the EU political agenda (2)

• EU-Commission adopted
• Programme for Community Action in the field of
  Health 2007-2013
• The proposed framework for funding projects
  related to health, including accidents and
  injuries, 2007-2013
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/health/
• WHO European Region adopted
• - Resolution (RC55) on giving priority to
  prevention of violence and unintentional injury
  in the European Region
• www.who.dk/Governance/resolutions/2005/