Accidentes En Los Niños
New Data on Child Injuries, New
Imperatives
(What you need to know backwards, in 3 slides)
Gordon Alexander Director, UNICEF Office of
Research, Florence
Plenary session :Prevention of Child Drowning
Danang, May 10th 2011
A battle that is far from over…
Mortality rates by cause & age among children 0-17 years,
15-17
Injury
Noncommunicable disease
Communicable diseaseUnable to determine
10-14
05-09
01-04
Infants
0
250
500
750
1,000 1,250 1,500 1,750 2,000 2,250 2,500 2,750 3,000 3,250 3,500 3,750
Rate per 100,000
Source:Consolidated data 5 countries
National Health Surveys 2003-2007
1
2/06/2011
After infancy, it’s injuries….
Proportional mortality by age
01-17
injury
noncommunicable disease
15-17communicable disease
10-14
unable to determine
05-09
01-04
0
50
100
150
Rate per 100,000
200
250
300
Source: ibid
We need to differentiate U5 space…
Injuries amongchildren under five years old
Communicable Diseases
22%
25%
9%
Injury
Non -Communicable Diseases
44%
Undifferentiated CD or NCD
100%
90%
80%
70%
Undif f erentiated CD orNCD
60%
Communicable Disease
50%
Non-communicable Disease
40%
Injury
30%
20%
10%
0%
Infant
1 yr
2 yr
3 yr
4 yr
Source: ibid
2
2/06/2011
Gettingthat ‘shift in perspective’ :
3 challenges ahead
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•
The evidence of ‘what works’: costed
‘Scaling –up’ has to be top of the agenda and a
focus of attention (national ownership and
institutionalstructures for sustainability; also
‘baselines’ and high quality action-research)
• We need to Communicate better – package the
knowledge in ways that ‘grabs’ and persuades
decision-makers
32/06/2011
Our commitments
• to publish further findings as IRC working papers and
open a platform at IRC website for this (and
conference documentation if agreed)
• to take the findings...
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