International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Statistics
What are the challenges as ICE moves forward?

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9th World Conference on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion
Merida, March 18th, 2008

What are the challenges as ICE moves forward?

Maria Isabel Gutierrez M. MD, MSc, PhD.
Professor & Chair
CISALVA Institute
Universidad del Valle
Cali- Colombia

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Injuries are equally distributed in the world?
This slide show a flat map of the world shaded by levels of injury death rates.

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Inadequate data validation

This slide is a trend graph of the number of injury deaths from 1990 through 1994 collected by different surveillance systems in Cali, Colombia including forensic medicine, police, public prosecution office and the health secretariat. The main point is to show that by 1994 the different sources of data were showing similar numbers of cases whereas just a few years earlier the health secretariat showed higher numbers than the other sources.

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The Future of ICE on Injury Statistics

Depends on

• People (who?)
  - Epidemiologists, statisticians, researchers etc. (anyone with a questioning spirit)
• Ideas and issues (what?)
  - To improve the information and its usefulness globally
• Supporting environment (how and where?)
  - To facilitate the articulation of ideas and the research and resolution of issues, globally

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Who should be engaged and why

• Government agencies
  - For funding and intersectorial support....
• Political bodies
  - To institute and drive policies based on good data
• Academic institutions
  - To enhance collaborations across countries and academic peers
• NGO's, Police, others

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This slide shows a photograph of a slate of fatalities, showing how they were recorded when there was no formal surveillance system in place.

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Challenges to engagement

• How can ICE facilitate their engagement?
  - Liaisons
  - Strategic partnerships
  - Specific needs?
  - Others?

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Issues and ideas

• Global expansion of injury surveillance
• Universal availability of injury data (Africa under-represented in injury mortality data)
• Quality standards for injury data globally i.e. data collection systems, contents and output
• Generation of ideas for and development of new products
• Universal application of ICE products to drive international policy? or local data?

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Global expansion of ISSs

• Replication of current ISSs in new sites
• New applications of ISS methodologies
  - Crime Observatories
  - Advising Safe Communities
  - Regional Projects, for example, to standardize indicators

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This shows a flow chart of crime observatories beginning with operational committees having monthly meetings to validate data on homicides, traffic deaths, suicides, unintentional deaths, domestic violence and other injuries. Data are entered into a computer, reports are generated, decisions made based on data evaluation and analysis and results in policy intervention, implementation, further evaluation and monitoring.

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Quality standards for injury data

• How can ICE contribute to this on a global level?
  - GBD
  - ICD-11
  - Indicators
  - Validating methods to be used cross-nationally

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Generation of ideas

• How can ICE "nurture" or encourage new ideas?
  - Continuing to provide fora for the sharing of ideas (physical meetings, electronic media, webinars)

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Utilization of ICE products

• How to disseminate and promote
  - Web-based; international meetings

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Supportive environment

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• How can we get more visible globally in providing our technical strength?
  • For supporting decision makers, stakeholders, etc. at different levels.
  • For expansion to other regions and cover other languages keeping the quality of the group.
  • For sustainability (visibility to other financial agencies and be introduce )

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How does ICE engage other statistical agencies/ governments to join in making our work truly global?

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Challenges

• Sensitive to local priorities
• Principles need to be adapted to different systems of governance
• Need to address implementation in resource limited settings
• Need to create a strategy for updating or improving statistical information over time
• Need to improve adequate dissemination of data to different audiences

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Challenges ct'd

• Establish a plan for capacity building on the implementation of informations systems.
• Expansion to other regions to cover other languages keeping the quality of the group.
• Translation of information into policy
• Sustainability

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Thank you

cisalva@univalle.edu.co & mgutierr@univalle.edu.co