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Overview
Aim:
The
aim of this WP is to
produce evidence on the burden of
injuries in terms of hospitalization episodes in EU countries together with information on the efficiency of relevant injury
prevention interventions, relevant to European policy makers
Module
1
Burden
of injuries
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This module assesses
the burden of injuries in participating European countries, with special
emphasis on the burden of non-fatal injuries and their economic impact.
In addition, selection and implementation of burden indicators relevant
for injury prevention monitoring in the region will be carried out.
Economic
consequences of injury
Module
3
Improvements
on severity measures of injuries
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This
module is aimed at reviewing state of the art in injury severity
assessment methods and contribute to the improvement of the ICD9-AIS
automatic conversion method (toward AIS/ISS based severity scores)
consisting in an extension of its applicability toward important body
parts not yet fully considered in existing methods. Mr. Alessio Pitidis
from the Istituto Superiore Di Sanita, Italy is the leader of this
module.
Module
4
Development
of exposure indicators
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This module
aims to develop a systematic way of studying and monitoring indicators for
injuries. Vicky Kalampoki, collaborator of the University of Athens,
Greece, is the coordinator of this module.
Module
5
Cost
effective interventions for injury prevention
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This module is aimed
at identifying what is known about social and economic costs and
consequences of injuries and the methods used to estimate these costs.
In addition, it identifies the cost effectiveness of strategies to
reduce socio-economic costs and consequences of injuries in Europe. The
outcome of these tasks will be a report on the efficient strategies to
reduce the burden of injures in Europe. Dr. David McDaid from the London
School of Economics, UK is the leader of this module.
Module
6
Policy
recommendations for injury prevention
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This module will
analyze success cases analyze success cases of policies that have been
implemented in EU MS, in relation to their investment cost and its
expected return. Dr. Yannis Skalkidis from the University of Athens,
Greece is the leader of this module. This module has just started and it
is preliminary to report completed tasks.
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WP
2 Leader:
Dr.
Maria Segui Gomez
European
Center for Injury Prevention
University of Navarra, ES
Tel:
+34 948 425 600 ext 6575
E-mail:
msegui@unav.es
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Query system : Hospital discharge
data surveillance system
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Sub-WP2 leaders
Hidde Toet
Consumer Safety Institute-NL
Alessio
Pitidis
Istituto
Superiore della Sanità
Laboratorio Epidemiologia e Biostatistica-IT
C. Frangakis
& V. Kalampoki
Athens
University, Medical School-
GR
David McDaid
London School of
Economics and Political Science-UK
Yannis
Skalkidis
Athens
University,
Medical School-GR
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