This web site is an opportunity for you to help address the injury pandemic in Africa.
Disease has 3 characteristics:
The vector carries the pathogen to the host. In malaria the host is the human being, the pathogen is the plasmodium parasite and the vector is the anopheles mosquito. For injury, the host is again the human being, the pathogen is energy (e.g. kinetic, chemical, radiation, thermal) and the vector is physical (e.g. automobile, bullet, water).
Injury is a disease.
This disease affects all regions of the world in epidemic proportions. More than 5 million people die from injury each year. This means that injury is a pandemic. The poor are affected more than the rich. This means that injury is a poverty related pandemic.
Africa the continent is more affected by injury than any other region in the world. The life time risk of an injury death for an African is 13%. CNIS with partners like the Injury Control Center – Uganda, the Injury Control Center – Tanzania and the Injury Prevention Initaitive for Africa are addressing this pandemic.
The Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS) needs YOUR help in saving lives in Africa. One means of addressing the injury pandemic is to evaluate and research the problem. There is a lot of research on injury in Africa, some of it is published in the gray literature i.e. journals that are not indexed, master thesis and PHD dissertations sitting in libraries, proceedings of conferences. Other information is indexed but in journals that one would not readily considers as a source. Assist the CNIS at making injury research in Africa better by finding and entering vital research information. Become a member of the Injury Research Consortium and work with us to improve the situation.
This online database provides participants with an easy-to-use and internationally available space to compile all scholarly work related to injury for all African countries.
We are currently offering the chance for motivated individuals to get involved directly with injury research in Africa!
How to get involved:
The CNIS's vision for this centralized collection of scholarly works will be to assist in producing reports wherein all the articles are systematically categorized and presented in a searchable database. The power of such information will allow African injury researchers to process data more effectively to help develop strategies and policies towards the improvement of African healthcare and awareness.
All entries are directly related and tagged by ICD-10 codes and African Union countries. Feel free to search our database for scholarly works based on:
To get started, visit the View Injury Records page, available from the top navigation menu.
The ICD has become the international standard diagnostic classification for all general epidemiological and many health management purposes. These include the analysis of the general health situation of population groups and monitoring of the incidence and prevalence of diseases and other health problems in relation to other variables such as the characteristics and circumstances of the individuals affected.
Please visit the World Health Organization (WHO) web site for more information on the ICD system.
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