Injuries in the European Union. Statistics Summary 2002-2004

This report is an up-to-date summary of the main results of injury statistics and surveys at EU level. European injury data made publicly accessible through international data providers like Eurostat or WHO is being combined with recent hospital based data of the EU Injury Database (IDB) on home and leisure accidents in order to gain a broad picture of the injury morbidity and mortality in the EU.
By standard, data of the years 2002 until 2004 (in most cases 3 years average) of the 25 EU member states is used.

Report compiled by the Austrian Road Safety Board (KfV) and the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EuroSafe).

European Commission: DG Health & Consumers: Injury Database http://ec.europa.eu/health/data_collection/databases/idb/index_en.htm

European Commission: DG Health and Consumer Protection: Health determinants: Environment: Injury Prevention http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/environment/IPP/ipp_en.htm

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