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Data & Surveillance
Injury Facts 2013 Book | National Safety Council
May 02, 2013
The book provides fast access to facts for benchmarking costs and creating safety programs. Environmental, health, and safety staff will find this an indispensable tool for current occupational, motor vehicle, home, community, state and international injury statistics on deaths and nonfatal injuries and the associated costs.
Understanding and Utilizing Fatal and Non-fatal Injury Data for Infants and Children Ages 0-4
The third webinar of the Children’s Safety Network’s Community of Practice on integrating infant and child injury prevention into programs and services for expectant parents takes an in-depth look at both fatal and non-fatal injury data for infants and children ages 0 through 4. George Bahouth, director of CSN’s Economics and Data Analysis Resource Center, explains this data with particular emphasis on injury mechanisms, including consumer product-related incidence and cost data for this age group.
Date
Dec. 2012
Perspectives on Enhancing Injury Prevention Research and Practice
The New England Injury and Violence Prevention Research Collaborative (NEIVPRC) and the Northeast and Caribbean Injury Prevention Network (NCIPN) presented this conference on October 24, 2012.
Welcome:
Garry Lapidus, PA-C, MPH, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center/ University of Connecticut
Audience:
Injury Prevention practioners and researchers
Length:
1-day
Materials:
PDFs of PowerPoint presentations
EMS for Children Performance Measure Data Now Available on NRC Website
Oct 18, 2012
Each EMS for Children State Partnership performance measure on the National Resource Center’s website is now individually cross-linked to the Health Services and Resources Administration’s Discretionary Grant Information System (DGIS) database. The DGIS contains the most recent reporting data for each performance measure. Data is supplied in aggregate form only. Note that due to the size of the DGIS database, it may take up to 30 seconds for aggregate data to appear.
Fatal Injury Surveillance in Mortuaries and Hospitals: A Manual for Practitioners from WHO
Oct 11, 2012
What is included in the manual?
Injury Prevention: What Works? A Summary of Cost-outcome Analysis for Injury Prevention Programs (2012)
Sep. 2012
Summarizes the incidence and cost savings of interventions to prevent injuries due to motor vehicles, impaired driving, open-flame/burns, and violence. Also includes cost savings realized by health/miscellaneous services and substance abuse prevention prevention.
- Data & Surveillance
- Child Passenger Safety
- Youth Violence Prevention
- Drug Misuse
- Fire & Burn Safety
- Teen Driving Safety
- Motor Vehicle
- Violence
Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths in Metropolitan Areas — United States, 2009 | CDC
Jul 26, 2012
Although rates have declined in recent years, motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) remain a leading cause of injury death in the United States (1). In 2009, a total of 34,485 MVC deaths were reported among U.S. residents, and 22% of those who died were aged 15–24 years. MVCs were the leading cause of death for that age group, which represents approximately 14% of the total U.S. population (1).
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Handbook Helps Physician Practices Implement Interactive Preventive Health Records
Jul 26, 2012
A new AHRQ handbook offers practical guidance to physician practices on the implementation of interactive preventive health records (IPHRs). The handbook is based on the lessons learned from implementation using electronic health records (EHRs) from three different vendors at 14 different physician practices. An Interactive Preventive Care Record: A Handbook for Using Patient-Centered Personal Health Records to Promote Prevention provides practical steps when integrating IPHRs as components of EHRs.
[Archived Webinar] Building Better Data Systems to Address Youth Violence and Injury | HRSA
Jul 12, 2012
Experts spoke to the importance of data and the various ways that public data can be used to monitor and create policy to address youth violence and injury trends. There is a full archive of the live program as well as a program transcript.
NVSR Vol. 60 No. 3 – Deaths: Final Data for 2009 | CDC
Jul 05, 2012
This report presents final 2009 data on U.S. deaths, death rates, life expectancy, infant mortality, and trends by selected characteristics such as age, sex, Hispanic origin, race, state of residence, and cause of death.
