{"id":992,"date":"2013-03-21T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=992"},"modified":"2013-03-21T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:49:06","slug":"call-for-eu-accident-and-injury-data-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/03\/21\/call-for-eu-accident-and-injury-data-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for EU accident and injury data system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Morag Mackay, now at Eurosafe, sent me this interesting notice: &#8220;<b>On the occasion of the 15th European Consumer Day, \u00a0a coalition of twenty-eight European umbrella organisations are issuing a\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosafe.eu.com\/csi\/eurosafe2006.nsf\/wwwAssets\/32F1469164C820FAC12576CC0051A0D4\/$file\/Joint%20call%20kopie.pdf\"><b>Joint Call<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0appealing to the European Institutions and the Member States to create an EU-funded accident &amp; injury data system under the co-ordination of the European Commission.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Earlier this week EuroSafe reported that 41 million injuries per year are treated in Emergency Departments across the EU (see report\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosafe.eu.com\/csi\/eurosafe2006.nsf\/wwwAssets\/7A0E220588591323C1257857003DBDA9\/$file\/IDB%202013%20report.pdf\"><b>&#8216;Injuries in the European Union&#8217;<\/b><\/a>). \u00a0Aiming to reduce the number of preventable injuries and also healthcare costs, a broad coalition of European business groups, consumer organisations, standardisation bodies and safety promoters urge the European Commission to found and fund an EU-wide accident and injury data system in a representative sample of emergency centres.\u00a0They are convinced that such a system would contribute to safer products for consumers, better standards and regulations, and fewer accidents and injuries. Moreover, the cost of creating such a system would be more than offset by reductions in health care costs.&#8221; \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Editors comment<\/span>: Much as I welcome growth in interest by the EU in injury prevention, I am not convinced the main emphasis should rest on the creation of a data system, no matter how sophisticated it may be. I assume some readers will disagree and I invite them to explain why I am wrong.<\/h3>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morag Mackay, now at Eurosafe, sent me this interesting notice: &#8220;On the occasion of the 15th European Consumer Day, \u00a0a coalition of twenty-eight European umbrella organisations are issuing a\u00a0Joint Call\u00a0appealing to the European Institutions and the Member States to create an EU-funded accident &amp; injury data system under the co-ordination of the European Commission.\u00a0\u00a0Earlier this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/03\/21\/call-for-eu-accident-and-injury-data-system\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}