Comparative Analyses on Three Injury Surveillance Systems in Japan,the U.S. and EU

摘要：

Death and disability caused by injury represents an enormous loss of economic opportunity in all countries. Activities of prevention necessitate acquiring the characteristic and magnitude of the injuries. This makes the injury surveillance system be an increasing demand for most countries. This study conducts a systematic comparison of three injury surveillance systems implemented in Japan, the United States and the European Union. Each step of the constitution of a surveillance system is compared, from data sources selecting to information disseminating. Also, some attributes i.e. simplicity, representativeness, data quality, of each surveillance system are evaluated. In Europe and the United States, the injury surveillance systems mainly rely on medical institutions as data sources. The injury data are described in a highly standardized format. In contrast to this, Japan mainly relies on non-medical institutions such as manufacturers report as data sources and the description of injuries is not standardized. As for the data set, the system in Japan is more specific on the objects involved in an injury case but less of information about the related information of environment, while the other two systems are to the contrary. By evaluating the systems, the system in the U.S. shows a better performance.

关键词： injury surveillance system database evaluation standardization comparison

作者: Kun ZHANG Jinxing WANG KatsukoT.NAKAHIRA Yoshiki MIKAMI

作者单位: Graduate School of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka 940-2188, Niigata, Japan Graduate School of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka 940-2188, Niigata, Japan S Department of Management and Information Systems Science, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Department of System Safety, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka 940-2188, Niigata, Japan

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 2010 International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology(2010 安全科学与技术国际会议)

会议地点: 杭州

会议语种:英文

页码: 2438-2449

在线出版日期: 2010-10-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）