This report is an up-to-date summary of the main results of injury statistics and surveys at EU level. European injury data made publicly accessible through international data providers like Eurostat or WHO is being combined with recent hospital based data of the EU Injury Database (IDB) on home and leisure accidents in order to gain a broad picture of the injury morbidity and mortality in the EU. By standard, data of the years 2002 until 2004 (in most cases 3 years average) of the 25 EU member states is used. Exceptions and information about the data sources used are stated in the Annex and with the respective charts and tables. Data extracted May 2006. (Author/publisher)
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