Publication

This Issue Brief provides an overview of the methods and objectives of hospital surveillance for understanding violent injury trends, and describes the current record keeping arrangements. It then reviews the data collected by the Timor-Leste Armed Violence Assessment (TLAVA) in three hospitals for the period 2006–08. The brief concludes with a review of the problems encountered in conducting this research and with a consideration of current challenges to hospital-based surveillance in Timor-Leste.