# Presentation: 692007

## Welcome to the 2006 meeting of theInternational Collaborative Effort -ICE- on Injury StatisticsLois Fingerhut, Chair

**Notes:**
It is always a great feeling to finally get to the beginning of these meetings..i welcome all of you to the 13th meeting of the ICE on Injury Statistics. a milestone to say the least!

## International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics

- An international activity of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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- Annual meetings since May 1994
- Visit and comment on our website  _[www.cdc.gov/nchs/advice.htm](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/advice.htm)_

**Notes:**
For those of you for whom this is your first meeting and there are quite a few – I hope you have already had a chance to visit our website. We also have it set up here at the meeting for your convenience.. Tammy is here with a laptop showing off our newly designed pages for which we would love your constructive feedback- 

## Goals of the ICE onInjury Statistics

- Provide essential data and tools for understanding causes of injury and effective means of prevention
- Provide a forum for international experts in injury prevention and control to discuss data issues

**Notes:**
This ICE is about data and tools that can be used to guide prevention.

## Participating Countries

- Early members:
- Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, England and Wales, France, Israel, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, St. Lucia, United States
- More recent participants from:
- Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile,                 El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Thailand, Trinidad
- Today we welcome participants from:
- Bangladesh*, Japan, Taiwan

**Notes:**
Participants are from academia, federal governments, non-profits. Your participant list will provide full details...
Most unfortunately, Fazlur Rahman from Bangladesh was unable to obtain a visa..

## Organizational Collaborations

- Pan American Health Organization
- European Union/Commission
- World Health Organization (WHO) Center Heads for Classification
- Washington Group (measurement of disability)
- CDC (3 Centers- NCHS, NCIPC & NIOSH)
- New to this meeting:
- International Society for Violence and Injury Prevention (ISVIP)
- World Bank (Transport Sector)

**Notes:**
PAHO includes CAREC Caribbean Epi Center

## Our 2-day agenda

- WHO panel
- ISVIP and the World Conference
- International traffic injury issues
- Measures of severity
- Main injury
- Indicators
- Other ICE updates
- Nonfatal injury surveillance
- ICD-11
- Future of the ICE on Injury Statistics

**Notes:**
As you can see, the agenda for this meeting has very little extra space for items not specifically mentioned. I am apologizing for that ahead of time...but it is because we have so much to discuss and there is a lot I want to accomplish by the end of tomorrow. 

It has been our custom to spend time at the beginning of each meeting introducing ourselves but even that has been reconsidered for this meeting. Many of you had the opportunity to meet last night and I trust that during breaks today you will continue learning more about each other. SO PLEASE when you get up to speak, lead with a one sentence introduction and when you ask a question for the first time, please introduce yourself.

I have a reputation that I feel compelled to share with our new attendees and remind our past participants. The clock is in my hand and I am a strong proponent of enforcing time limits on presentations for the sake of fairness to all the others in the room. So I will be holding up a sign when you have 3 minutes left and one at 1 minute and then I’ll “ring” the bell to signal – that’s it.

## AdvICE list...

**Send SMTP message to **_[listserv@cdc.gov](mailto:listserv@cdc.gov)_** and type in the**
** ****body of e-mail "Subscribe AdvICE-Users" followed by your full name**.

**Notes:**
If you haven’t joined the Advice List serve, please do!

## Tackling the Toll of Injuries

- August 22, 2006, Washington Post
- Fred Rivara and Charles Mock
- Urging far more international attention to injury prevention

**Notes:**
In your packets

## Thanks to...

- Carla Battle, Courtesy Associates- Travel liaison
- Tammy Stewart-Prather, Injury ICE web page coordinator
- Hank Weiss and team for recording our sessions
- Ladonna Crayton for her photocopying all of the presentations and handouts! (lcrayton@cdc.gov)

**Notes:**

Carla Battle is here from Courtesy Associates should you have any travel related questions for her.

Tammy Stewart-Prather is also here. She’s one of our key NCHS web page developers and is the person responsible for the brand new look of our web pages...when you have some time, stop by and check out the pages and offer up your advice.

Assisting  our ICE colleague Hank Weiss with recording will be Lloyd Wharton, a contractor for NCHS. Before anything goes on the web, Hank will give each of you the opportunity to edit/comment etc before it goes live.

## Updates to agenda as of Sept 6..

- Fazlur Rahman from Bangladesh was unable to obtain his visa...
- Saakje Mulder had a sudden and unavoidable conflict at work
- Elizabeth Ward sends regrets at not being able to attend
- Safe Kids World wide representative is Jacquie Dukehart.

**Notes:**

Your folders contain a sheet of logistical information that we hope is helpful, a list of participants, an agenda..

With that , let’s start with our first panel...on international organizations