TASC has joined forces with UNICEF Cambodia and national partners to produce the country’s largest community based injury survey.

Cambodian governmental agencies have undertaken the field work, interviewing approximately 69,000 households, representing approximately 275,000 people. TASC's Senior Data Manager, Tom Dunn, and TASC Consultant Epidemiologist, Dr Jing Rui Wei, visited Cambodia in August 2007 to provide technical consultation to the data management team who are now cleaning the data collected in the field prior to formal analysis.

Some causes of child injury, including drowning, result in rapid death before the child can be taken to a health care provider.  Since conventional methods of measuring mortality are based on the records of these health care providers, the deaths of these children are frequently missed. By surveying households, TASC is able to capture those additional deaths, giving government and non-government organizations a more complete picture of child injury rates and the causes of child injury.

Analysis and results are expected to be available late in the year.

One of the thousands of children that
live on Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia