Burden of Sport Injuries in the European Union - Safety in Sports

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8 The health burden of sport injuries 48 8 | February 2012 Annually, about 4.5 million people aged 15 years and above have to be treated in hospital for a sports injury as defined by the EU IDB catalogue of sports. Of those aged 15 years and above, 25% of sports injuries affect the 15-24 old category. When children under the age of 15 are included, the estimate is 5.8 million sports injuries treated in hospitals annually in the EU-27 (table/figure 15), which is about 14% of all unintentional injuries (“accidents”). Additionally roughly 2.6 million more are medically treated outside hospitals, e.g. in doctor’s offices. The latter figure is only a rough indicator, based on an older study carried out in 2003, based on analyses of various national household surveys (Bauer 2003). Nevertheless, this figure is quoted here, as most probably better estimates will be available in the future due to the implementation of the European Health Interview System, which will ask explicitly for accidents and injuries at home and during leisure activities and consequent medical consultations (Eurostat 2006, 2010, 2012). This system is to provide indicator ECHI 19a (Home, leisure, school related injuries: self-reported incidence). Although there is no explicit question or answer category regarding sport, but nevertheless with using the shares established by the EU IDB monitoring system estimates on all medical treatments of sport injuries will be possible. Bauer and Steiner (2009) have developed a comprehensive picture on all injuries for the responsible policy domains (road, work-place, school, sport, home and leisure, interpersonal violence and self-harm) by forms of treatment, indicating the severity of injuries (deaths, hospital admissions, ambulatory treatments, other medical treatments). This table allows for a comparison of the importance of sport injuries with other injuries (table/figure 16).
Road traffic Workplace School Sports Home, Leisure Total of unintentional injuries Homicide, assault 49 8 | February 2012 Suicide, selfharm Total of all injuries Fatalites 50 530 6 080 ? 7 000 115 460 179 070 5 540 58 940 255 850 Hospital Admissions Hospital Outpatients All Hospital Patients Other medicallytreated All medically treated 20% 2% ? 3% 45% 70% 2% 23% 100% 1 000 000 300 000 100 000 600 000 4 500 000 6 500 000 300 000 400 000 7 200 000 14% 4% 1% 8% 63% 90% 4% 6% 100% 3 300 000 3 200 000 600 000 5 200 000 20 800 000 33 100 000 1 500 000 200 000 34 800 000 9% 9% 2% 15% 60% 95% 4% 1% 100% 4 300 000 3 500 000 700 000 5 800 000 25 300 000 39 600 000 1 800 000 600 000 42 000 000 10% 8% 2% 14% 60% 94% 4% 1% 100% 1 900 000 6 200 000 1 500 000 5 000 000 300 000 1 000 000 2 600 000 8 400 000 11 200 000 36 500 000 17 500 000 800 000 300 000 57 100 000 2 600 000 900 000 18 600 000 60 600 000 Table/figure 16: Comprehensive view on injuries by domains responsible for prevention (Bauer & Steiner 2009) 5.8. million in hospitals treated sport injuries (or 8.4. medically treated injuries in total) count for about 14% of all unintentional injuries (“accidents”). About 9% (or 0.6 million cases) have to be admitted for further treatment. This share, which can be seen as a rough indicator for the average severity of sport injuries, is significantly lower than for all unintentional injuries (20%) and for road traffic injuries in particular (30%). The cut-off of sport from table/figure 15 and the inclusion of the estimate on disabilities allows for the common representation of the health burden in form of the “injury pyramid” (table/figure 17).
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Page 5 and 6: 1 Executive summary 5 1 | February
Page 7 and 8: 2 Objectives of this report 2.1 To
Page 9 and 10: 9 2 | February 2012 tunities to red
Page 11 and 12: 2.3 To assess the health burden of
Page 13 and 14: 2.5 Who is addressed by this report
Page 15 and 16: 3 Why sport injury matters 15 3 | F
Page 17 and 18: 17 3 | February 2012 The image of s
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Page 23 and 24: 23 3 | February 2012 the promotion
Page 25 and 26: 4 Key terms and methodological rema
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Page 31 and 32: 31 4 | February 2012 tion of health
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Page 35 and 36: 6 Morbidity 6.1 The European Injury
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Page 39 and 40: Core data set Module Recording coun
Page 41 and 42: 41 6 | February 2012 2006 2007 2008
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Page 45 and 46: 7 Disabilities 7.1 Methodology 45 7
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Page 75 and 76: 75 12 | February 2012 Eurobarometer
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