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WHO and International Panel
International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics
Hyatt Regency, Washington
September 7-8, 2006
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/en/
WHO role in injury data
• Family of coding systems
• Global data collation and analysis
• Capacity development
• Regional and country level programs
linkage to
• Population data (UN)
• Economic data (World Bank)
Department for Injuries and Violence PreventionDepartment for Injuries and Violence Prevention
Office of the Director
Prevention of violence
Unintentional injury prevention
Disability andRehabilitation
Capacity Building
Advocacy/Communications
Policy Development
Surveillance
Services
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/en/
WHO Activities and focus
• Tools – Injury surveillance guidelines, Community survey guidelines.. Coding systems
• Analysis and publications• Trials - with partners WHO-AFRO, CDC..
• Advocacy
• Capacity development• Training – TEACH-VIP..
WHO Plan of Action..child injury
1. Data and measurement• Facilitate / enhance collection & analysis of data. • Identify /collate /improve data on risk & protection
OUTCOMES• Improved collections• Multi-country comparison• Estimates / case studies for World Report Child Injury• Estimates… for World Report on Disability• Guide to estimating costs• WHO "data-kit" on data gathering
Injury Data Publications
• Updated data set completed for 2002
• Revised estimates 2007
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/en/
Challenges – injury data
• Absence of data
• Quality, coverage, coding of data• Imbalance of data (e.g. AFRO, LMIC)
• Lack of capacity
• Moving from pilots to systems
• Developing means for improvement
Challenges in injury data• How to get solid data –
- global /regional / country
- fatal / non-fatal / access to care / cost data
- long term non-injury consequences
• How to support countries and build capacity
• What priorities for WHO-VIP action
• What needs around injury data
Appendix slides
Coverage of Death Registration Mortality data (1995 onwards) by cause available in WHO
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Numbers report cause death data WHO
WHO region Useable data
Complete enumerati
on
Total countries in
Region
Africa 4 1 46
The Americas 33 14 35
Eastern Mediterranean
7 3 21
Europe 50 39 52
South-East Asia 4 0 11
Western Pacific 17 7 27
World 115 64 192
Countries with 1 year of VR 1998-2001
WHO Income Region
No. of countries
submitting VR data
No. of countries in region
Percentage of countries in region that submit
VR data
Africa 9 46 19.5 Americas 26 35 74.3
HIC 5 5 100.0 LMIC 21 30 70.0
South-East Asia 4 10 40.0 Europe 46 51 90.1
HIC 21 21 100.0 LMIC 25 30 83.3
Eastern Mediterranean 9 22 40.9 HIC 4 5 80.0 LMIC 5 17 29.4
Western Pacific 16 27 59.3 HIC 5 6 83.3 LMIC 11 21 52.4
All HICs 35 37 94.6 All LMICs 75 154 48.7