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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.
15-3. Reduce firearm-related deaths.
Target: 4.9 deaths per 100,000 population.
Baseline: 11.0 deaths per 100,000 population were related to firearm 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* | Firearm-Related Deaths Rate per 100,000 |
| TOTAL | 12.1 |
| Race and ethnicity | |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 11.4 |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 5.0 |
| Asian | DNC |
| Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander | DNC |
| Black or African American | 22.9 |
| White | 10.4 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 10.7 |
| Cuban | 13.1 |
| Mexican | 11.1 |
| Puerto Rican | 8.5 |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 12.1 |
| Black or African American | 23.7 |
| White | 10.0 |
| Gender | |
| Female | 3.4 |
| Male | 21.4 |
| Education level (aged 25 to 64 years) | |
| Less than high school | 22.9 |
| High school graduate | 18.3 |
| At least some college | 7.4 |
| Select firearm-related deaths | |
| Homicides | 4.9 |
| Suicides | 6.6 |
| Unintentional | 0.4 |
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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Last modified: 22-Aug-2001.