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

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. 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 the International Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury Statistics Lois Fingerhut, Chai

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  1. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics Welcome to the 2006 meeting of theInternational Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury StatisticsLois Fingerhut, Chair

  2. 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) • Annual meetings since May 1994 • Visit and comment on our website www.cdc.gov/nchs/advice.htm

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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)

  6. 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

  7. AdvICE list… Send SMTP message to listserv@cdc.gov and type in the body of e-mail "Subscribe AdvICE-Users" followed by your full name.

  8. Tackling the Toll of Injuries • August 22, 2006, Washington Post • Fred Rivara and Charles Mock • Urging far more international attention to injury prevention

  9. 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@cdc.gov)

  10. 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.

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