Injury Topic Links and Related Sites

The Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center is not responsible for the contents of these links. The links are provided only as a resource for information and research.

International Injury Resources

Global and Multinational | Africa | Americas | Asia | Europe | Oceania

Global and Multinational:

• Andean Net for Violence Prevention (Spanish) Cochrane Collaboration Home Page
      - The Cochrane Injuries Group
• Europa (English/German/Spanish/French/Portuguese/Dutch/Italian/Greek/Danish/Finnish) European Union website with Statistical information.
• European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (English/French/German/Italian)
• European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardization - ANEC
• EuroSafety Net
  A collaboration of eleven safety organizations from 9 European countries working under the European Consumer Safety Organization. Information on injury surveillance systems, accident and hazard research, product safety, campaigns, safety conferences and evaluations of preventive measures. Also a listing of safety experts and the addresses of safety related organizations in Europe.
• Inter-American Development Bank (English/Spanish)
• International Action Network on Small Arms - IANSA
• International Center for Conversion (Bonn)
• International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (English/French/Spanish)
• International Council on Alcohol and Addictions
• International Council on Alcohol, Drugs & Traffic Safety
• International Road Safety Organisation - PRI (La Prévention Rutière Internationale)
• International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect - ISPCAN
• International Telecommunication Union (English/French/Spanish)
• International Transportation Safety Association
• Organization of American States - OAS (Spanish/English/Portuguese/French)
      - Inter American Children's Institute (IIN) (Spanish/English/Portuguese/French)
     - Inter American Commission of Women  (Spanish/English/Portuguese/French)
      - Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project  (Spanish/English/Portuguese/French)
• Pan-American Health Organization - PAHO (Spanish/English)
• Statistical Office of the European Communities - EUROSTAT (German/English/French)
  International information on emergency medical services.
• Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network - Tephinet
  Information on training in Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETP) including injury research.
• United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network
• United Nations Crime Information (Economic and Social Development) (English/French/Spanish/Arabic/Japanese/Russian)
• UNDP Against Violence Home Page (English/Spanish)
• UNIFEM, A World Free of Violence Against Women
• The World Bank (English/Spanish/French/Japanese/Russian)
      - Road Safety
      - Publications on Crime and Violence in Latin America
• World Council of Churches - Overcoming Violence (English/Spanish/German/French/Russian)
• World Health Organization - WHO (English/French)
      - WHO International Programme on Chemical Safety
      - WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
      - WHO Violence
      - WHO Violence and Injury Prevention

Africa:

Morocco

• Ministry of Health (French)
  Basic injury statistics for Morocco. Info on page 237.  Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

South Africa

• South African Police Service
• South African Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
• Statistics South Africa

Americas:

Argentina

• National Institute of Statistics and Census (Spanish/English)
  Statistical information on injuries in Argentina.
  
• Violence Prevention, Argentinian Technology and Science Secretariat (Spanish)

Bolivia

• National Institute of Statistics (Spanish)
  Basic statistical information on injuries in Bolivia.

Brazil

• Cojuntura Criminal (Portuguese)
  A site that provides data and information on crime and security in Brazil.
• DATASUS, Ministry of Health (Portuguese)
  Statistical information on injuries in Brazil. Links to several Brazilian health related institutions.
• Institute for Studies in Religion - ISER (Portuguese/English)
  A non-governmental and non-profit organization that works for the strength of civil society and citizenship in Brazil, through the development of research projects in four areas: Violence, Public Safety and Human Rights; Environment; Civil Society Organizations; and Religion and Society.
• Viva Rio (Portuguese/English)
  Violence Prevention programs and education in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Canada

• Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research
• British Columbia Children's Hospital - Safe Start
• British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit
• Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs (English/French)
• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (English/French)
• Canadian Federation of Agriculture Safety Program (English/French)
• Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting & Prevention Program - CHIRPP (English/French)
• Canadian Institute of Child Health (English/French)
• Canadian Injury Data (English/French)
  Data on Injury mortality and hospitalizations, injury mortality trends and tables of leading causes of death at different ages.
• Canadian Parks and Recreation Association
• Canadian Red Cross (English/French)
• Fire Prevention Canada (English/French)
• Queen's University at Kingston Emergency Medicine and Injury Research Group
• Health Canada - Child Injury Division (English/French)
• Ministry of Health, British Columbia
• North Bay Safe Community Project, Ontario
• Office of the Provincial Health Officer - BC
• Product Safety Bureau of Canada (English/French)
• SmartRisk (English/French)
• Sport Medicine Council of British Columbia
• St. John Ambulance - Canada (English/French)
• Traffic Safety - Canadian Automobile Association (English/French)
• The Canada Safety Council (English/French)
• The Rick Hansen Institute
• Thinkfirst
• Transport Canada - Public Safety (English/French)

Chile

• Ministry of Health (Spanish)
  Statistical information on injuries in Chile.

Colombia

• Institute of Research and Development of Violence Prevention and Promotion of 
• Social Coexistence - CISALVA,
• University of El Valle , Cali. (Spanish)
  Epidemiologic research on injuries and violence.
• Effect of a Ban on Carrying Firearms on Homicide Rates in 2 Colombian Cities
  An article from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Available on-line on HTML and pdf versions.
• Gamma-Idear Foundation(Spanish)
  Information on Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence.
• National Statistical Administrative Department - DANE (Spanish)
  Statistical information on injuries in Colombia.
• National Institute of Health (Spanish)
  Epidemiologic research in Colombia.
• Patterns of Homicide in Cali, Colombia
  Descriptive epidemiology of homicide in Cali. From the CDC's MMWR.

Cuba

• National Institute of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (Spanish)

Jamaica

• Ministry of Health
  Includes some basic information on injuries in Jamaica.

Mexico

• Fact Sheet on Violence Against Pregnant Women, Mexican Institute of Social Security (Spanish)
  
• Health Secretariat - Disaster Surveillance (Spanish)
  
• Integrated Family Development Program (Spanish)
  Information on Child Abuse.
  
• Mexican Journal of Public Health (Spanish)
  Contains some articles on injuries in Mexico.
  
• Mortality due to Poisoning in Mexico (Spanish)
  Article on mortality due to poisoning in children 0-14 years in Mexico.
  
• National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (Spanish/English)
  Provides data on mortality due to injuries in Mexico.

Peru

• Health Statistics, Peru (Spanish)
  Statistical information on injuries in Peru.

St. Lucia

• National Statistics Department
  Provides counts of deaths by selected injury causes in St. Lucia.
  
• Crime Statistics
  Provides information on crime statistics in St. Lucia.

Uruguay

• Center for Popular Education (Spanish)
  Information and programs on domestic violence in Uruguay.
  
• Ministry of Health (Spanish)
  Includes basic indicators of mortality due to injuries.
  
• National Statistics Institute (Spanish)
  Includes statistical yearbook data with some information on injuries.
  
• Road Safety/Seguridad Vial (Spanish)
  Information on traffic and road safety.
  
• Uruguayan Association for Security and Accident Prevention (Spanish)
  Educational and Prevention information on injuries.

Venezuela

• Law on Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women (Spanish)
  Current legislation on Domestic Violence.

Asia:

Bahrain

• Ministry of Health
  Basic statistical information on injuries in Bahrain.

People's Republic of China

• Occupational Safety and Health Council - Hong Kong (Chinese/English)
  
• Department of Health Statistics - Hong Kong (Chinese/English)
  Basic information on injury mortality in the administrative region of Hong Kong.
  
• Hong Kong Police Department (Chinese/English)
  Crime and security information in Hong Kong.
  
• Transport Department (Chinese/English)
  Information on laws and road user codes for Hong Kong.

Indonesia

• Statistics Indonesia
  Basic information on crime rates.

Israel

• Transportation Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  
• Transportation and Road Injury, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew/English)

Japan

• Japan Poison Information Center (Japanese)
  
• Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association (Japanese/English)
  
• Japan International Center for Occupational Safety and Health (Japanese/English)

Korea

• Korean Institute of Criminology (Korean/English)
  Selected articles on crime in South Korea.

Malaysia

• Road Safety Research Centre (Malay/English)

Palestine

• Palestinian Health Information Center (Arabic/English)
  Provides some basic statistical information on injuries in Palestine.

Singapore

• Singapore Civil Defense Force
  Provides information on fire safety and codes in Singapore.
• Singapore Ministry of Health
  
• Singapore Police Force
  Information on crime statistics and transportation injuries. Excellent web design. Shockwave required.

Taiwan

• Ministry of Health (Chinese/English)
  Injury prevention strategies.
  
• Ministry of Health Statistics (Chinese/English)
  Provides basic tabulation of mortality by age groups including injuries. Requires MS-Excel.
  
• Ministry of Justice Statistics (Chinese/English)
  Statistics on prosecutions and convictions in Taiwan.

Thailand

• Department of Land Transport (Thai/English)
  Information on driving regulations.

United Arab Emirates

• Ministry of Health Statistics
  Basic statistics on injuries in the UAE.

EUROPE:

Belgium

• Belgium - Belgian Institute for Road Safety (BIVV) (Dutch/French)
  
• Belgian Institute for Road Safety Drink/Driving (Dutch/French)

Cyprus

• Department of Statistics and Research (Greek/English)
  Crime Statistics in Cyprus.

Denmark

• Statistics Greenland (Danish/Greenlandic/English)
  Statistical yearbook with some data on injuries. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. 

Finland

• Enhanced Safety Coming from Appropriate Police Enforcement - ESCAPE
  Information on safety and police enforcement.
  
• Technical Research Centre of Finland- VTT (Finnish/English)
  Risk and Safety Management/Engineering.
  
• VTT Transport Research
  Information on traffic speed limit research in Europe.

France

• Campaign for Security in Routes (French)
  Traffic safety information and prevention.
  
• Le Permis (French)
  Information on road safety and driving schools
  
• National Institute of Research and Safety (French/English)
  
• Prevention 2000 (French)
  Online videos and cartoons on safety and injury prevention.
  
• Road Prevention (French)
  Road safety information.
  
• Road safety Information (French)
  Government information on road safety.
  
• National Statistics (French)
  

Germany

• German Traffic Safety Council (German)
  
• Statistik - Federal Statistical Office (German/English)

Greece

• Center for Research and Prevention of Injuries Among the Young (CIREPRI) (Greek/English)

Ireland

• National Safety Council

Luxembourg

• European Commission Public Health Injury Prevention

Netherlands

• Certification Institute - Consumer Safety (Dutch/German/English)

Norway

• Norwegian Epidemiologic Association (Norwegian/English)

Slovenia

• Office for safety and Health at Work (Slovenian)
  A division of the Ministry of Labor, Family, and Social Affairs of Slovenia.
  
• Slovene Road Safety Council (Slovenian)
  
• Slovene Institute Occupational Safety (Slovenian)

Spain

• Amics de la Bici (Spanish)
  Focuses on bicycles and traffic safety in Barcelona.
  
• Asociation of Mutuals of Work Injuries - AMAT (Spanish)
  Statistical information on work-related injuries
  
• Asociation for Accident Prevention - APA (Spanish)
  Information on Injury prevention strategies.
  
• General Traffic Directorate. Ministry of the Interior, Spain (Spanish)
  Information on legislation and traffic safety in Spain.
  
• Municipal Police of Madrid (Spanish)
  Information on Police campaigns on traffic safety.
  
• Psychology and Road Safety, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spanish/English)
  
• University Institute of Traffic and Road Safety - INTRAS (Spanish/English)
  Information on traffic injuries and prevention of Valencia University.

Sweden

• Karolinska Institutet (Swedish/English)
      - Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention, Karolinska Institutet (Swedish/English)
  
• National Road Administration (Swedish/English)
  
• National Society for Road Safety (Swedish/English)
  
• Swedish Office of the Children's Ombudsman (Swedish/English)
  It is a main assignment for the Children's Ombudsman to observe that Swedish society lives up to the
  expectations expressed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  
• Science and Experience in Traffic Work - VETA (Swedish/English)
  
• Stockholm Spinal Cord Injury Study - SPINALIS (Swedish/English)
  
• Swedish National Road and Transport Safety Institute - VTI (Swedish/English)

Switzerland

• Swiss Statistics (German/French/English)
  Statistical information on injuries in Switzerland.

United Kingdom

• British Trauma Society
  
• Health and Safety Department, University of Edinburgh
  
• Health and Safety Executive
  
• Health and Safety Laboratory
  
• Highways Agency
  
• Home Safety Network
  
• Institute of Child Health
  
• The Chartered Institute of Transport
  
• The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM)
  
• The Institution of Highways and Transportation
  
• The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
  
• Transport Management Research Centre
  
• Transportation Research Laboratory
  
• Trauma.org

Oceania:

Australia

• ARRB Transport Research
  
• Australian Automotive Association (AAA)
  
• University of Queensland Injury Prevention Group
  
• Australian Institute of Criminology
  
• Australian National Injury Surveillance Unit
      - Australian Injury Prevention Bulletin
  
• Australasian Trauma Society
  
• Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - CARRS - Queensland
  
• Centre for Rural Social Research.
  Information on rural injuries in Australia.
  
• Department of Transport and Regional Services
  
• Monash University Accident Research Centre
  
• New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research
  
• Product Safety Recalls in Australia
  
• The Department of Preventive and Social Science Medicine, Dunedine School of Medicine
  

New Zealand

• Alcohol/Public Health Research Unit
  
• Consumer Safety in New Zealand
  
• Land Transport Safety Authority
  
• New Zealand Institute of Driving Instructors
  
• New Zealand Accident Compensation Corporation
  Provides information on injury prevention programs.

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