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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.
Healthy People 2010 Objectives
Injury Prevention
15-15. Reduce deaths caused by motor vehicle crashes.
Target: 9.0 deaths per 100,000 population for 15-15a and 1 death per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for 15-15b.
Baseline: 15.0 deaths per 100,000 population were caused by motor vehicle crashes in 1998 (preliminary data; age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population) for 15-15a and 2 deaths per 100 million VMT were caused by motor vehicle crashes in 1997 for 15-15b.
Target setting method: Better than the best for 15-15a; 50 percent improvement for 15-15b. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.)
Data sources: National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), CDC, NCHS; Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
| Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths Total Population, 1997* (unless noted) |
15-15a. Rate per 100,000 |
15-15b. Rate per 100 Million VMT |
| TOTAL | 15.8 | 2 |
| Race and ethnicity | ||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 31.5 | DNC |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 10.6 | DNC |
| Asian | DNC | DNC |
| Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander | DNC | DNC |
| Black or African American | 17.0 | DNC |
| White | 15.8 | DNC |
| Hispanic or Latino | 15.2 | DNC |
| Cuban | 13.9 | DNC |
| Mexican | 17.1 | DNC |
| Puerto Rican | 9.1 | DNC |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 16.3 | DNC |
| Black or African American | 17.8 | DNC |
| White | 16.1 | DNC |
| Gender | ||
| Female | 10.4 | DNA |
| Male | 21.7 | DNA |
| Education level (aged 25 to 64 years) |
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| Less than high school | 25.0 | DNC |
| High school graduate | 20.7 | DNC |
| Select populations | ||
| Children aged 14 years and under | 4.2 (1998) | DNA |
| Persons aged 15 to 24 years | 25.4 (1998) | DNA |
| Persons aged 70 years and older | 24.3 (1998) | DNA |
| Motorcyclists | NA | 21.3 |
DNA=Data have not been analyzed. DNC=Data are not collected. DSU=Data are statistically unreliable. NA=Not applicable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population; 1998 data are preliminary.
*New data for population groups will be added when available.
Read Operational Definition for this Objective
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Rev. 20-Aug-2001 at 07:28 hours.