Guidelines for Conducting Community Surveys on Injuries and Violence

This paper describes how the Guidelines for conducting community surveys on injuries and violence is a companion document to the Injury surveillance guidelines which WHO released in 2001. The document explains, step-by-step, how to conduct community-based surveys to collect information about injuries and violence and their resultant disabilities. In order to develop effective prevention strategies, most countries need better information on the burden of injuries and violence in their communities. This need prompted the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to develop the Injury Surveillance Guidelines which guide practitioners on how to develop information systems in health care facilities. Hospital-based surveillance systems need to be complemented by other tools to capture all injury events and deaths in a population. For instance, those treated outside the formal health sector or those with minor injuries which do not necessarily require hospital attention might be missed by a facility-based information system. Community-based surveys are one way of obtaining injury events within a community. These surveys provide useful baseline information on injuries and in certain situations the results may be extrapolated to the general population. Community surveys are an important supplement to hospital surveillance and are particularly relevant in situations where population denominator data are lacking. However, these type of surveys require specific methodological expertise that might not be available in all countries. To this end WHO, in collaboration with an expert panel experienced in this field, have developed these Guidelines for conducting community surveys on injury and violence.

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• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 134p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communities; Community action programs; Cooperation; Guidelines; Injuries; Surveillance; Surveys; Violent crimes
• Identifier Terms: World Health Organization
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Society; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01055695
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9241546484
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 24 2007 8:54AM