Towards an integrated surveillance system of road accidents

The aim of this paper is to provide an integrated overview on data included in Causes of death and Road accidents Istat registers. All the data sources available for the surveillance of road traffic accidents have important limits, when taken separately. Therefore the integration of medical and non medical data is essential in order to build up a surveillance system so as to drive both preventive and repressive actions. Data integration, performed by record linkage techniques, focuses on the extension of information associated to each road accident. In particular, information on the circumstances of traffic accident and characteristic of roads and vehicles are linked to medical information on causes of death at individual level.