Belgium

Belgium

Introduction

In spite of decreases over the last 20 years, injury remains the leading cause of child and adolescent death and disability in Belgium.

Injury prevention work to address child and adolescent injury in Belgium has been fragmented, but the development of a child safety action plan has provided an opportunity to bring the many different organisations together to begin to look at a more coordinated approach. Belgium is represented on the European Child Safety Alliance Steering Group by CRIOC-OIVO and Kind en Gezin.

The current priority areas for child and adolescent injury prevention and safety promotion include completing a Child Safety Action Plan for Belgium with a focus on coordination of activities and improving injury surveillance, home safety, school safety and road safety.

Country Contacts

Erwin Van Kerschaver

Kind en Gezin
Hallepoortlaan 27
B-1060 BRUSSEL
BELGIUM

Phone: +32 2 533 14 23
Fax: +32 2 534 14 48
Email: erwin.van.kerschaver@kindengezin.be
Website: www.kindengezin.be

Rob Buurman

OIVO-CRIOC
Paapsemlaan 20, 3e verdieping
1070 BRUSSEL
BELGIUM

Phone: +32 2 547 0627
Email: rob.buurman@oivo-crioc.org
Website: www.crioc.be

Child Safety Action Planning

Below you will find Child Safety Report Cards and Profiles for Belgium, who was a participant country in both phases of the Child Safety Action Plan initiative along with a link to their national child safety action plan.

Injury Data

The Injury Data section provides bar graphs comparing Belgium's injury death rates with the injury death rates for the other countries in the WHO European Region. Bar graphs are provided in PDF format for easy download for all unintentional injury deaths and by external cause of unintentional injury topic using data from the WHO Mortality Database and the European Report on Child Injury Prevention. In addition, bar graphs for suicide and homicide are also provided, however these data are slightly older.

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