Welcome to the 2006 meeting of the International Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury Statistics Lois Fingerhut, Chair

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Welcome to the 2006 meeting of
theInternational Collaborative Effort -ICE- on
Injury StatisticsLois Fingerhut, Chair
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International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on
Injury Statistics

• An international activity of the Centers for
  Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National
  Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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• Annual meetings since May 1994
• Visit and comment on our website
  www.cdc.gov/nchs/advice.htm

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Goals of the ICE onInjury Statistics

• Provide essential data and tools for
  understanding causes of injury and effective
  means of prevention
• Provide a forum for international experts in
  injury prevention and control to discuss data
  issues

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Participating Countries

• Early members
• Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, England and
  Wales, France, Israel, New Zealand, The
  Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, St. Lucia, United
  States
• More recent participants from
• Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile,
  El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico,
  South Africa, Thailand, Trinidad
• Today we welcome participants from
• Bangladesh, Japan, Taiwan

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Organizational Collaborations

• Pan American Health Organization
• European Union/Commission
• World Health Organization (WHO) Center Heads for
  Classification
• Washington Group (measurement of disability)
• CDC (3 Centers- NCHS, NCIPC NIOSH)
• New to this meeting
• International Society for Violence and Injury
  Prevention (ISVIP)
• World Bank (Transport Sector)

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Our 2-day agenda

• WHO panel
• ISVIP and the World Conference
• International traffic injury issues
• Measures of severity
• Main injury
• Indicators
• Other ICE updates
• Nonfatal injury surveillance
• ICD-11
• Future of the ICE on Injury Statistics

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AdvICE list
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the body of e-mail "Subscribe AdvICE-Users"
followed by your full name.
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Tackling the Toll of Injuries

• August 22, 2006, Washington Post
• Fred Rivara and Charles Mock
• Urging far more international attention to injury
  prevention

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Thanks to

• Carla Battle, Courtesy Associates- Travel liaison
• Tammy Stewart-Prather, Injury ICE web page
  coordinator
• Hank Weiss and team for recording our sessions
• Ladonna Crayton for her photocopying all of the
  presentations and handouts! (lcrayton_at_cdc.gov)

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Updates to agenda as of Sept 6..

• Fazlur Rahman from Bangladesh was unable to
  obtain his visa
• Saakje Mulder had a sudden and unavoidable
  conflict at work
• Elizabeth Ward sends regrets at not being able to
  attend
• Safe Kids World wide representative is Jacquie
  Dukehart.