Violence and Injury Prevention

Data collection publications and resources

Below you will find publications and resources, including documents and fact sheets related to injury and violence surveillance.

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Fatal injury surveillance in mortuaries and hospitals: a manual for practitioners (2012)

A new WHO manual aimed at improving injury and violence data. Although applicable everywhere, the manual will be most useful in countries that lack a formal vital registration system or only have a relatively basic system that does not provide enough detail on injuries and violence.

Alcohol and injury in emergency departments (2007)

Summary of the Report from the WHO Collaborative Study on Alcohol and Injuries.

Guidelines for conducting community surveys on injuries and violence (2004)

Designed to capture detailed community-based data and information on both injury events and risk factors for injury, the Guidelines for conducting community surveys on injuries and violence are a companion to the earlier released Injury surveillance guidelines. The manual provides a relatively simple standard methodology for collecting data on injuries in the community.

Injury: A leading cause of the global burden of disease, 2000 (2002)

Injury: A leading cause of the global burden of disease 2000 is intended to serve as a reference on the ranking of injuries among other leading causes of the burden of disease to facilitate informed decision-making and increase attention to this significant public health problem among policy-makers, health officials, researchers and the general public.

The injury chartbook (2002)

Cover of the injury chart book

Based on the premise that access to accurate, reliable information is the key to sound policy-making, The Injury Chartbook seeks to provide a global overview of the nature and extent of injury mortality and morbidity in the form of user-friendly tables and charts.

Guidance for surveillance of injuries due to landmines and unexploded ordnance (2000)

This document, which is concerned with identifying the scale of the problem using hospital based information, presents a tool which, if used widely, would lead to a better understanding of the size of the problem at global level. Such a system could be integrated into existing health information systems and could be used for monitoring change resulting from variations in landmine and unexploded ordnance use and preventive interventions.

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