State Capacity Building
Data & Surveillance
Injury surveillance data, including incidence, risk, and cost data, are valuable tools to determine the scope of the injury problem and what prevention initiatives should be developed, or expanded, based on needs in the community.
Cost benefit data can be used to advocate for specific community-based interventions, as well as State-based injury prevention programs. States may analyze emergency department, hospital admission, and mortality data, in addition to other sources, in order to design and implement prevention programs.
Injury is the leading cause of death for children age 19 and younger. In 2005, there were 17,351 injury-related deaths in this age group, including:
- 12,122 deaths from unintentional injuries
- 2,997 deaths from intentional injuries, and
- 1,855 deaths from self-inflicted injuries.
Unintentional fatal injuries cost the U.S. $62 billion in 2005; $37 billion was due to fatal injuries sustained in motor vehicle crashes.
CSN Publications
- Bicycle helmets save medical costs for children
- Child Abuse and Neglect Costs Fact Sheet by State
- Child and adolescent violence
- Child Safety Seats: How large are the benefits and who should pay?
- Childhood Injury: Cost and Prevention Facts
- Current Speed Limits Cost Prevention
- From E to VWXY cause of injury codes
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA): The privacy rule
- Incidence and costs of fatal injuries by state
- Incidence and costs of hospital-admitted injuries: Selected US states with hospital-based injury data (CSN partnership with West Virginia University and AHRQ)
- Injury Prevention Counseling by Pediatricians Saves Money
- Injury prevention: What works? A summary of cost-outcome analysis for injury prevention programs
- National Injury Data Maps Updated!
- Northeast Injury Prevention Network: Poison Data Book
- Northeast Injury Prevention Network: Suicide Databook
- Poison Control Centers save Money and Lives
- Sobriety Checkpoints Injury Cost Prevention
- United States Fact Sheet, 2008 National Performance Measures Related to Injury and Violence
CSN Presentations
- An overview of the National Violent Death Reporting System
- Childhood injury and cost benefit analysis fact sheets of injury prevention interventions.
- Childhood injury costs and prevention savings
- External cause coding improvement: Where have we come and where do we need to go
- Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS): Things to know
- Injury data basics for MCH programs
- Injury data basics for school health professionals
CSN Webinar(s)
- Child Death Review Findings: A Road Map for MCH Injury and Violence Prevention; Part I
- Feasibility of Enhanced Surveillance for Poisonings
- Injury Data Basics for MCH Programs
Spotlight on the State
Injury Prevention Links
- Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System
- CDC National Center for Health Statistics Injury Data and Resources
- Maternal and Child Health Bureau Title V Information System (TVIS)
- National Center for Child Death Review
- National Center for Statistics and Analysis
- WISQARS
- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
For more information or technical assistance, contact State Outreach Coordinator.