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Injury data sources

As there is no one place to collect all injury data, you will need to allow time at the beginning of the project/program to approach different services for the data needed. This is a valuable process but to get it done faster it may be worth forming a small data committee with a representative from each local organisation involved. Each organisation could then be responsible for collating a brief report from the data collected by their service about local child injury. It may be helpful to standardise and compare the available data as much as possible.

Suggested sources of injury information include:

International

• Injuries and violence in the WHO Western Pacific
• Injuries in general WHO

National

• The Australian Institute and Health and Welfare (AIHW)  is Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics. Information is available on the website for subjects such as children and youth, Indigenous persons, hospitals, expenditure and you can also search for injury topics. There are publications, data online and a media centre.
• The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's national statistical office to access nationally comparable statistics.
• The National Injury Surveillance Unit (NISU) is based at Flinders University Research Centre for Injury Studies, South Australia. NISU analyse and report on injury data, develop information sources and provide advice and support to those who work with injury related matters. One of their latest reports was on Child Poisoning in Australia, released October 2006.

State

• The Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian reviews all child deaths as a part of functions under the Act since August 2004. They maintain a register of child deaths, research risk factors associated with child deaths and make recommendations to prevent future deaths. The Commission produces an annual report of unintentional and intentional deaths of children and young people in Queensland.
• Queensland Health Information Centre provides a client focused library service, central data, information collection and retrieval facility for the processing and dissemination of Corporate and other health data to internal and external clients of the Department. The Centre is a central reference service for information enquiries and also conducts valued-added statistical and epidemiological analysis.
• Queensland Health's Central Library Services also provides a range of cost effective information products and services to onsite and remote clients. Recent reports of interest include the Chief Health Officers Report.
• The Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) collects injury data from a number of hospital Emergency Departments on behalf of Queensland Health with the support of the Mater Health Services, Brisbane. QISU currently collects data in 16 hospitals across Queensland including three sample regions: metropolitan (Brisbane); regional (Mackay and Moranbah) and remote (Mount Isa). Data from Emergency Department presentations can help with further understanding of injuries. QISU also develops Injury Bulletins that review injuries under different topics and age groups. These bulletins are useful for further information about specific child injuries.

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