Collection of individual/community child safety data to develop a ‘Child Safety Index’

Turner, SL; Lyons, R. A.; Rodgers, SE; Fry, R.J.M.; Mackay, Mary; Vincenten, Joanne; McFarlane, Karen L.

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckt126.319

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“…The survey was initially piloted in schools across Europe to assess feasibility and reliability, including several schools in Neath Port Talbot (NPT) Council, a municipality in Wales. 30 STCSS is now being implemented across all NPT schools, replacing a paper-based survey, and improving the quality, breadth and usability of data to support local active travel and road safety interventions. The web-based survey is designed to capture identities in a way that will support subsequent anonymisation and linkage to data in SAIL to facilitate medium-term and long-term evaluations of the effectiveness of active travel and child safety interventions on a range of health and social outcomes.…”

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All Wales Injury Surveillance System revised: development of a population-based system to evaluate single-level and multilevel interventions

et al. 2015

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BackgroundInjury surveillance has been established since the 1990s, but is still largely based upon single-source data from sentinel sites. The growth of electronic health records and developments in privacy protecting linkage technologies provide an opportunity for more sophisticated surveillance systems.ObjectiveTo describe the evolution of an injury surveillance system to support the evaluation of interventions, both simple and complex in terms of organisation.MethodsThe paper describes the evolution of the system from one that relied upon data only from emergency departments to one that include multisource data and are now embedded in a total population privacy protecting data linkage system. Injury incidence estimates are compared by source and data linkage used to aid understanding of data quality issues. Examples of applications, challenges and solutions are described.ResultsThe age profile and estimated incidence of injuries recorded in general practice, emergency departments and hospital admissions differ considerably. Data linkage has enabled the evaluation of complex interventions and measurement of longer-term impact of a wide range of exposures.ConclusionsEmbedding injury surveillance within privacy protecting data linkage environment can transform the utility of a traditional single-source surveillance system to a multisource system. It also facilitates greater involvement in the evaluation of simple and complex healthcare and non-healthcare interventions and contributes to the growing evidence basis underlying the science of injury prevention and control.

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confidence: 99%