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Fire Safety Surveillance: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
There is a long history of the systematic collection and analysis of data to inform public health policy. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines public health surveillance as “An ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice.”
The aim of this chapter is to identify important aspects of a coordinated approach to fireFires safety surveillanceSurveillance. If the theoretical and practical challenges identified in the chapter can be overcome and the various components of such a system put in place, it could lead to better-informed decision making and hopefully over time help to improve residential fireResidential fires safety.
The material on definitions presented in this chapter is based on what has been learned when studying fatal firesFatal fires and fireFires deaths in Sweden. In the immediate aftermath of the fireFires at a Halloween party in Gothenburg in 1998 where 63 teenagers died, it was decided that the central fireFires authority should work systematically to access all data concerning fatal firesFatal fires known to the fireFires service, police, forensic pathologists, road accident investigators, national burnBurns centres, and the health authorities.
The authors also relate to experiences gained from cooperation on fireFire statisticsFires statistics among the Nordic countries and Estonia. The definitions used in these countries are compared with descriptions and definitions in national fireFires statistics from Great Britain and the USA.
Fire Safety Surveillance: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
There is a long history of the systematic collection and analysis of data to inform public health policy. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines public health surveillance as “An ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice.”
The aim of this chapter is to identify important aspects of a coordinated approach to fireFires safety surveillanceSurveillance. If the theoretical and practical challenges identified in the chapter can be overcome and the various components of such a system put in place, it could lead to better-informed decision making and hopefully over time help to improve residential fireResidential fires safety.
The material on definitions presented in this chapter is based on what has been learned when studying fatal firesFatal fires and fireFires deaths in Sweden. In the immediate aftermath of the fireFires at a Halloween party in Gothenburg in 1998 where 63 teenagers died, it was decided that the central fireFires authority should work systematically to access all data concerning fatal firesFatal fires known to the fireFires service, police, forensic pathologists, road accident investigators, national burnBurns centres, and the health authorities.
The authors also relate to experiences gained from cooperation on fireFire statisticsFires statistics among the Nordic countries and Estonia. The definitions used in these countries are compared with descriptions and definitions in national fireFires statistics from Great Britain and the USA.
Fire Safety Surveillance: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
The soc. of Fire Protection Engineers Series
Runefors, Marcus (editor) / Andersson, Ragnar (editor) / Delin, Mattias (editor) / Gell, Thomas (editor) / McIntyre, Colin (author) / Jonsson, Anders (author)
2022-08-28
21 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Surveillance , Fire statistics , Residential definition , Fire definition , Fire death definition , Fire injury measurements Engineering , Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety , Psychology, general , Clinical Psychology , Emergency Medicine , Public Policy , Building Construction and Design
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