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