caa a22 4500 606222359 CHVBK 20210128101133.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00038-015-0665-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00038-015-0665-z The challenge of compiling data profiles to stimulate local preventive health action: a European case study from child safety [Elektronische Daten] [Denise Alexander, Michael Rigby, Mika Gissler, Lennart Köhler, Morag MacKay] Objectives: Positive recent experience of presenting comparative child safety data at national level has instigated policy action in Europe. It was hoped a Child Safety Index could quantify how safe a community, region or locality is for its children in comparison with similar areas within Europe, as a focus for local targeted action. Methods: Validated indicators proposed by previous European projects identified from areas of child injury prevention, such as road safety, burns or poisoning, were selected to give a balanced profile, and populated from available published data. An index using a sub-score for each specific injury topic was proposed. The indicators' presentation, sensitivity and appropriateness were considered, as well as data availability. Results: Satisfactory indicators were not identified for all areas and very few local area data were available. This forced the researchers to conclude that at present, constructing a reliable Child Safety Index for use at the local level is not feasible. Conclusions: There is a worrying lack of data available at the sub-national level to support injury prevention, evaluate interventions, and enable informed local decision making. The Author(s), 2015 Child health nationallicence Injury nationallicence Prevention nationallicence Surveillance nationallicence Alexander Denise Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut Rigby Michael Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden aut Gissler Mika Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden aut Köhler Lennart Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden aut MacKay Morag European Child Safety Alliance, Birmingham, UK aut International Journal of Public Health Springer Basel 60/4(2015-05-01), 449-456 1661-8556 60:4<449 2015 60 38 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0665-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0665-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Alexander Denise Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rigby Michael Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gissler Mika Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Köhler Lennart Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MacKay Morag European Child Safety Alliance, Birmingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Public Health Springer Basel 60/4(2015-05-01), 449-456 1661-8556 60:4<449 2015 60 38