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3.3 HOME AND LEISURE<br />
Figure 16: Fatalities and <strong>in</strong>jured due to home and leisure accidents by country, EU27<br />
Fatalities per<br />
100 000<br />
15-30<br />
>30<br />
no data available<br />
COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF INJURIES - HOME AND LEISURE<br />
Country<br />
Fatal <strong>in</strong>jured<br />
<strong>in</strong> home<br />
and leisure<br />
accidents<br />
Hospital<br />
treated<br />
<strong>in</strong>juries due<br />
to home<br />
and leisure<br />
accidents<br />
Fatalities<br />
per<br />
100 000<br />
<strong>in</strong>habitants<br />
Hospital<br />
treated<br />
<strong>in</strong>juries<br />
per<br />
100 000<br />
<strong>in</strong>habitants<br />
BE 2 156 – 21 –<br />
BG 1 402 – 18 –<br />
CZ 3 285 – 32 –<br />
DK 1 748 449 000 32 8 300<br />
DE 12 214 – 15 –<br />
EE 967 – 72 –<br />
IE 469 – 12 –<br />
EL 1 623 – 15 –<br />
ES 6 060 – 14 –<br />
FR 21 685 3 815 000 35 5 000<br />
IT 12 579 – 22 –<br />
CY* – – – –<br />
LV 1 654 – 72 –<br />
LT 2 192 – 64 –<br />
LU 111 – 25 –<br />
HU 4 421 – 44 –<br />
MT 77 – 19 –<br />
NL 2 406 604 000 15 4 000<br />
AT 1 723 577 000 21 7 100<br />
PL 9 204 – 24 –<br />
PT 1 431 608 000 14 5 800<br />
RO 6 255 – 29 –<br />
SI 521 – 26 –<br />
SK 1 097 – 20 –<br />
FI 2 340 – 45 –<br />
SE 2 310 516 000 26 5 700<br />
UK 9 594 5 569 000 16 9 400<br />
EU27* 109 512 32 200 000** 22 6 471**<br />
Source: Eurostat, WHO Mortality Database, WHO Health for all Database, EU Injury Database (IDB, Home and Leisure Accidents), 3 year average of latest available years. Data presentation:<br />
Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit (KfV), 2007 * Value for Cyprus for V00-X59 is not available ** Estimation based on <strong>the</strong> available IDB data.<br />
Over 100 0000 home and leisure fatalities <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> EU – a reason to bo<strong>the</strong>r<br />
The average rate of fatal home and leisure accidents <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> EU27 is 22 per 100 000 <strong>in</strong>habitants, this is more than twice <strong>the</strong> rate of fatal road<br />
traffic accidents (10 per 100 000) and more than ten times <strong>the</strong> rate of fatal work place accidents (1.5 per 100 000). Every year more than<br />
100 000 EU citizens die from home and leisure <strong>in</strong>juries (Figure 16).<br />
Figure 17: Non fatal home and leisure accidents by activity at <strong>the</strong> time of <strong>in</strong>jury<br />
Vital (basic) activity 4%<br />
Unspecified activity 16%<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r specified activity 18%<br />
Do-it-yourself work 3%<br />
Domestic work 4%<br />
Educational activity 1%<br />
Play and leisure activity 36%<br />
Sports, athletics, exercise 18%<br />
Injury surveillance <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
home and leisure area is<br />
still neglected <strong>in</strong> most EU<br />
Member States. The EU<br />
Injury Database (IDB) aims at<br />
clos<strong>in</strong>g this gap by provid<strong>in</strong>g<br />
unique <strong>in</strong>formation about<br />
<strong>the</strong> external causes of<br />
home and leisure accidents.<br />
For <strong>the</strong> participat<strong>in</strong>g IDB<br />
countries <strong>the</strong> rate of hospital<br />
treated home and leisure<br />
accidents ranges from 4 000<br />
per 100 000 <strong>in</strong>habitants<br />
(Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands) to 9 400<br />
(United K<strong>in</strong>gdom; Figure 16).<br />
Sport <strong>in</strong>juries account for<br />
about 18% of this <strong>in</strong>jury<br />
sector (Figure 17).<br />
Source: EU Injury Database (IDB, Home and Leisure Accidents - https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/idb/), data of latest available years (mostly 2003-2005). Data presentation: Kuratorium für<br />
Verkehrssicherheit (KfV), 2007<br />
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