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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.
15-30. Reduce hospital emergency department visits for nonfatal dog bite injuries.
Target: 114 hospital emergency department visits per 100,000 population.
Baseline: 151.4 hospital emergency department visits per 100,000 population were for nonfatal dog bite injuries in 1997 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), CDC, NCHS.
| Total Population, 1997 | Hospital Emergency Department Visits for Nonfatal Dog Bite Injuries Rate per 100,000 |
| TOTAL | 151.4 |
| Race and ethnicity | |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | DSU |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | DSU |
| Asian | DNC |
| Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander | DNC |
| Black or African American | 115.1 |
| White | 164.2 |
| Hispanic or Latino | DSU |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | DSU |
| Black or African American | DSU |
| White | DSU |
| Gender | |
| Female | 150.8 |
| Male | 152.0 |
| Education level | |
| Less than high school | DNC |
| High school graduate | DNC |
| At least some college | DNC |
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.
Between 500,000 and 4 million persons in the United States are bitten by dogs every year.(56) Children are among the most vulnerable, and almost half of all people are estimated to have been bitten by a dog during childhood. Among children, more than half of bites have been to the head, face, or neck.
Because of the risk to large parts of the population, especially children, effective prevention strategies are needed to reduce the painful and costly burden of dog bites. More knowledge is needed through a combination of enhanced and coordinated dog bite reporting systems, expanded population-based surveys, and implementation and evaluation of prevention trials. Particularly for the more severe episodes, information needs to be obtained regarding high-risk situations, high-risk dogs, and elements of successful interventions.
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Last modified: 22-Aug-2001.