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.

15-17. Reduce nonfatal injuries caused by motor vehicle crashes.

Target: 1,000 nonfatal injuries per 100,000 population.

Baseline: 1,270 nonfatal injuries per 100,000 population were caused by motor vehicle crashes in 1997.

Target setting method: 21 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.)

Data source: General Estimates System (GES), DOT, NHTSA.

Data for other population groups currently are either not collected or not analyzed.

Read Operational Definition for this Objective

Read Overview of Injuries

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Rev. 20-Aug-2001 at 06:51 hours.