European Injury Database
The Injury Database (IDB) is an internet database set up by DG SANCO under the Injury Prevention Program in 1999, in order to provide central access to the data collected in the Member States under the EHLASS Program (European Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System). The IDB is an EU-wide injury surveillance system based on Accident & Emergency department data from selected member state hospitals. This data is aggregated at the EU level in a standardised way and made accessible in a central database.
IDB is the only data source in the EU that contains sufficient detail for developing preventive action against the rising tide of home and leisure accidents in Europe. The purpose of the IDB is to facilitate injury prevention in the Member States and at EU level - through trans-national aggregation and harmonization of data, and through reporting and benchmarking.
In the areas of traffic and workplace safety much progress has been made in the European Union through collaborative actions and enhanced regulatory frameworks. Owing to these efforts the actual injury rates related to traffic and work related injuries are on the decrease in most of the Member States. However the number of injuries as a result of home and leisure injury is now in fact on the increase.
The IDB was set up under the Injury Prevention Program in 1999 (EUPHIN/ISS). To date the IDB represents one of the elements of the envisioned Health Information and Knowledge System of the Public Health Program.
The KfV acts as the IDB Project-coordinator.
