IPW: Healthy People 2010 Injury Prevention Objectives

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.

15-4. Reduce the proportion of persons living in homes with firearms that are loaded and unlocked.

Target: 16 percent.

Baseline: 19 percent of the population lived in homes with loaded and unlocked firearms in 1998 (preliminary data; age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC, NCHS.

Total Population, 1994*	Loaded, Unlocked Firearms in Home Percent
TOTAL	20
Race and ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	DSU
Asian or Pacific Islander	DSU
Asian	DSU
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander	DSU
Black or African American	24
White	20
Hispanic or Latino	DSU
Not Hispanic or Latino	20
Black or African American	25
White	20
Gender
Female	18
Male	22
Education level (aged 25 years and older)
Less than high school	23
High school graduate	19
At least some college	20

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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