Accidentes En Los Niños

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2/06/2011

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

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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

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2/06/2011

Gettingthat ‘shift in perspective’ :
3 challenges ahead



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

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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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