2. Welcomes the adoption by the Commission of a common EU definition of serious injuries, based on the globally accepted trauma classification known as the Maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale;

In addition, we gather data from two of our own programs: the Canadian incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect, and the Canadian hospitals injury reporting and prevention program, a computerized information system that collects and analyzes data on injuries to people, mainly children, who are seen at emergency rooms in eleven pediatric hospitals and four general hospitals in Canada.

– integrating activities to structure better, on a European scale, the way research infrastructures operate in a given field, like clinical research infrastructures / networks for paediatric diseases, and promote their coherent use and development

– integrating activities to structure better, on a European scale, the way research infrastructures operate in a given field, like clinical research infrastructures / networks for paediatric diseases, and promote their coherent use and development

Initiatives such as the Canadian Hospitals Injury and Prevention Program, the Centres for Excellence for Children’s Well-being, the Health Behaviours in School-Aged Children Survey, the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System, the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program, the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey, the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, the Enhanced Surveillance of Canadian Street Youth System, the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), New Canadian Children and Youth Survey, the Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Aboriginal Children’s Survey, the Social Development Partnerships Program, and the international Child Protection Research Fund combine quantitative and qualitative kno ...[+++]wledge development from surveys and statistics with community-based research and the collection and sharing of best practices.