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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
15-34. Reduce the rate of physical assault by current or former intimate partners.
Target: 3.6 physical assaults per 1,000 persons aged 12 years and older.
Baseline: 4.5 physical assaults per 1,000 persons aged 12 years and older by current or former intimate partners in 1994.
Target setting method: 20 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.)
Data source: National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
| Persons Aged 12 Years and Older, 1994* | Physical Assault by Current or Former Intimate Partners Rate per 1,000 |
| TOTAL | 4.5 |
| Race and ethnicity | |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | DSU |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | DSU |
| Asian | DNC |
| Native Hawaiian - Pacific Islander | DSU |
| Black or African American | DNA |
| White | DNA |
| Hispanic or Latino | DNC |
| Gender | |
| Female | 7.6 |
| Male | 1.4 |
| Education level | |
| Less than high school | DNA |
| High school graduate | DNA |
| At least some college | DNA |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
*New data for population groups will be added when available.
Read Operational Definition for this Objective
Read Overview of Injuries
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Last modified: 22-Aug-2001.