Robert Bauer

Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit | kfv

p>Burns are a significant public health problem that occurs at home and especially affect children. Non-fatal burn victims suffer from prolonged hospitalization, disfigurement and disability, with consequences of stigma and rejection. The survey on child injuries at home with focus on burns showed that sociodemographic determinants play an importan...

This paper gives an overview of official monetary valuations of the prevention of road crashes, road fatalities and injuries in 31 European countries. The values have been made comparable by converting them to Euro in 2015-values, adjusted by purchasing power parities. The monetary valuation of preventing a fatality varies from 0.7 to 3.0 million E...

Background Measuring the true incidence of injury or medically attended injury is challenging. Population surveys, despite problems with recall and selection bias, remain the only source of information for injury incidence calculation in many countries. Emergency department (ED) registry based data provide an alternative source. The aim of this stu...

Background Injury data from emergency departments (EDs) as used for the European Injury Database (IDB) can deliver most useful health indicators – beside mortality data. The current EU health information system requests EU member states to apply the IDB methodology and to deliver injury incidence rates for major domains of prevention (European Core...

Background The EU Injury Database IDB is designed to deliver public health indicators on various kinds of non-fatal injuries. Although IDB data should be recorded in every hospitalbased emergency department (ED), there are many countries which collect data only in samples of hospitals, which makes projections necessary. Previous analyses of estimat...

The EU road safety policy aims to cut European road deaths by 50% by 2020 compared to 2010 and reduce non-fatal injuries accordingly. To do so, it also seeks to make vulnerable road users (VRU) safer by improving communication; and improving tools for collecting and analysing accidents. However, official data for assessing road safety seems to be c...

The EU research project SafetyCube pays specific attention to serious road injuries, defined as nonfatal road traffic casualties with an injury severity level of MAIS3+. By means of surveys, information was collected on current practices concerning the estimation of the number of MAIS3+ casualties and on costs related to serious road injuries in di...

To determine accurately the number of serious injuries at EU level and to compare serious injury rates between different countries it is essential to use a common definition. In January 2013, the High Level Group on Road Safety established the definition of serious injuries as patients with an injury level of MAIS3+(Maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale...

Background: Information about the burden of (non-fatal) road traffic injury is very useful to further improve road safety policy. Previous studies calculated the burden of injury in individual countries. This paper estimates and compares the burden of non-fatal serious road traffic injuries in six EU countries/regions: Austria, Belgium, England, T...

The goal of this study was to analyze the changes in mortality trends of road traffic injuries for the whole population in transitional Lithuania over 1971 to 2014. Special attention was paid to the potential effect of the activities at macro and micro-level, and the socio-economic changes after the Independence in 1991. The data were derived from...

While Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) and buses account for just a small proportion of the vehicle fleet or the total vehicle kms travelled in the EU, they are over-involved in severe road accidents, creating a significant need to better understand the characteristics specific to this vehicle group. In 2013, more than 4,500 persons were killed in road t...

Cyclists, while relatively small in proportion with respect to motorized vehicles, have a high level of vulnerability, creating a significant need to better understand the characteristics specific to this user group. A good insight into the problem provides an opportunity to improve the road safety of this cheap, convenient and environmentally frie...

The aim of the study was to examine the long-term trends in pedestrian mortality for children (aged 0 to 14 years) and young people (aged 15 to 19 years) over four decades in transitional Lithuania. Methods. Road traffic fatality data were obtained from Statistics Lithuania and the Archives of Health Information Centre. Trends were analysed by line...

In 2013, 26.090 people were killed in road accidents throughout the EU, approximately 6.200 females and 19.800 males. Females account for 51% of the total EU population, but only 24% of all road fatalities. The objective of this research is the analysis of basic road safety parameters related to road users’ gender in the EU countries, by the use of...

Background Although various injury data sources exist in Europe; many lack sufficient size, scope, detail or comparability, to support injury prevention research or policy development. Emergency department (ED) records offer one of the most comprehensive sources of injury data; however, heterogeneous hospital data collection systems prevent compara...

Background Injury is a major cause of mortality and morbidity. The emergency department (ED) registry based data, provides a cost-effective way to estimate the burden of injuries. Previous studies in general population have suggested that survey based data collection is not efficient and suffers from recall or selection bias. The aim of this study...

Background Within the framework of the EU health information system, a European Core Health Indictor (ECHI) is foreseen on home and leisure, sport and school injuries (ECHI-29). However in 2010, there were no reasonably comparable injury data available for these areas, but emergency department (ED) records offered a most valuable source of informat...

Background It is important to select robust injury indicators for international comparisons and evaluation of preventive interventions. Emergency department data provide the best opportunity for robust indicators with the greatest utility. Previous analyses have suggested that long bone fracture (LBF) incidence should be a robust population indicat...

Background Studies show that young children (< 5 yrs) are most at risk among the under 18-year-olds for being hospitalised because of a head injury (Dunning et al. 2004). Despite the high incidence rates in this age group and some publications on a national level (Ellsaesser 2014), little knowledge exists on a European level of the importance of pr...

Background Children and adolescents have the highest risk of injury. Emergency department (ED) data provide the best opportunity for estimating the burden of hospital treated injuries. Survey based data remains the only source of information for out of hospital medically treated injuries in many countries. The purpose of this study was to describe...

Background In Austria, bicycle helmets have been mandatory on public roads for children under 12 years of age since May 31, 2011 (23rd amendment to the road safety act). The regulation was introduced as an awareness measure and is primarily designed to protect children from head injuries. Thus, there are no consequences for violation of the regulat...

Car occupants have a high level of mortality in road accidents, since passenger cars are the prevalent mode of transport. In 2013, car occupant fatalities accounted for 45% of all road accident fatalities in the EU. The objective of this research is the analysis of basic road safety parameters related to car occupants in the European countries over...

Background Studies show that young children (< 5 yrs) are most at risk among the under 18-year-olds for being hospitalised because of a head injury (Dunning et al. 2004). Despite the high incidence rates in this age group and some publications on a national level (Ellsaesser 2014), little knowledge exists on a European level of the importance of p...

Background: Accidents and injuries are a relevant although largely preventable public health problem. Information on the causes of accidents is the basis for accident prevention and product safety. The current report "Injuries in the European Union", edited by EuroSafe, the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, is a summ...

The promotion of physical exercise is an essential strategy of health promotion. However, a sizeable proportion of health gains are lost due to sport injuries. As safety concerns are a factor in the decision to participate in sports, reducing the injury risk is also an essential strategy of public health policies. Prerequisite for targeted programm...

The aim of DaCoTA's Work Package 1 is to shed light on road safety policy-making and management processes in Europe and to explore how these can be better supported by data and knowledge. This was done by assessing demands and views of stakeholders as well as by building a good practice model for road safety management investigation. Future version...

Sport ist ein sehr bedeutender Faktor für die heimische Volkswirtschaft, speziell in den Bereichen Tourismus und Sportartikelindustrie. Doch Sport hat auch eine überwiegend positive Wirkung auf die menschliche Gesundheit, und bekanntermaßen sind beträchtlche volkswirtschaftliche Belastungen die Folgen von Bewegungsmangel. Und gerade den durch Beweg...

Interpersonal violence is an issue of growing public concern and there is experience that data from emergency departments can substantially broaden the evidence needed to tackle the many forms and different environments that violence occurs in. The EU Injury Database (IDB) is a specially designed large scale injury surveillance systems for all sect...

The implementation of prevention-oriented injury surveillance in the European Union (EU) is a major demand towards the Member States in the recent EC Council Recommendations on the prevention of injury and the promotion of safety. Needed in particular are valid and reliable indicators for the array of external causes of injury morbidity, like invol...

The establishment of specially designed injury surveillance systems is widely advocated as a prerequisite for the development and evaluation of injury prevention strategies. By international experience the EU Data Base (IDB) is considered the most appropriate data system to that avail in Europe. The IDB focus is to collect external cause informatio...

Targeted injury prevention needs information, and the basis is data. The EU Council Recommendation on injury prevention of 2007 recommends that Member States make better use of the existing data, and that they implement additional injury surveillance, when appropriate, in order to obtain comparable information. In almost all Member States, some dat...

This study investigates the incidence and patterns of child home injuries in six European Union countries. Emergency department and inpatient injury data on injuries to children aged 0-18 years in the home (n = 88,567) for the years 2003-2004 were extracted from the European Injury Database in Austria, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Portugal and Swe...

European Union (EU) countries are among the leading tourist destinations in the world. Despite growing consumer demands on the safety of travelling, injuries amongst tourists remain an essentially invisible problem. Unique national and regional data sources are the only means by which the important negative impact of injuries on the health of non-d...