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Implementation of a system of surveillance of childhood injuries involved in a Safe Community program: the example of Boulogne-Billancourt (France)
  1. M Sznajder1,
  2. B Chevallier2,
  3. J Yacoubovitch3,
  4. P Aegerter4,
  5. B Auvert4
  1. 1Departments of Public Health and Pediatrics, Hôpital Ambroise Paré AP-HP and Faculté de Médecine Paris-Ouest, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
  2. 2Department of Pediatrics, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
  3. 3Ministry of Health, Paris, France
  4. 4Department of Public Health, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Marc Sznajder, Service de Santé Publique et Information Médicale, Hôpital Ambroise Paré AP-HP, 9 avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92100 Boulogne, France;
 marc.sznajder{at}apr.ap-hop-paris.fr

Abstract

Objectives: To provide precise information about child injuries, intended to promote preventive actions, in keeping with the general pattern of a Safe Community program implemented in Boulogne-Billancourt (France) since 1997.

Methods: Information about children under 16 injured in the city of Boulogne-Billancourt and its surroundings, are extracted in a database.

Discussion: The Boulogne-Billancourt database is the first permanent and specific childhood injury surveillance system in France integrated in a “Safe Community”. It may constitute an “alarm system” by allowing rapid implementation of preventive action. The final evaluation of the collected data will be performed at the end of the program (after five years).

  • surveillance system
  • Safe Community
  • database
  • AP-HP, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
  • EHLASS, European Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System
  • WHO, World Health Organization
  • surveillance system
  • Safe Community
  • database
  • AP-HP, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
  • EHLASS, European Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System
  • WHO, World Health Organization

https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.8.4.330

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