IPW: Healthy People 2010 Injury Prevention Objectives

Healthy People 2010 - With Annotations

Chapter 15

Injury and Violence Prevention
Lead Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Goal: Reduce injuries, disabilities, and deaths due to unintentional injuries and violence.

Unintentional Injury Prevention

15-13. Reduce deaths caused by unintentional injuries.

Target: 20.8 deaths per 100,000 population.

Baseline: 33.3 deaths per 100,000 population were caused by unintentional injuries in 1998 (preliminary data; age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), CDC, NCHS.

Total Population, 1997*	Unintentional Injury Deaths Rate per 100,000
TOTAL	34.8
Race and ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	62.7
Asian or Pacific Islander	20.9
Asian	DNC
Native Hawaiian - Pacific Islander	DNC
Black or African American	0.9
White	34.3
Hispanic or Latino	30.1
Cuban	23.2
Mexican	32.1
Puerto Rican	27.7
Not Hispanic or Latino	35.1
Black or African American	40.9
White	34.2
Gender
Female	21.8
Male	49.2
Education level (aged 25 to 64 years)
Less than high school	51.6
High school graduate	39.9
At least some college	17.2
Select populations
Black or African American male	60.3
American Indian or Alaska Native male	89.6
Hispanic male	45.4
White male	48.4

DNA =Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU =Data are statistically unreliable.

Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.

*New data for population groups will be added when available.

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