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.

15-5. Reduce nonfatal firearm-related injuries.

Target: 10.9 injuries per 100,000 population.

Baseline: 26 nonfatal firearm-related injuries per 100,000 population in 1996.

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Total Population, 1996	Nonfatal Firearm-Related Injuries Rate per 100,000
TOTAL	26
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	DNA
White	DNA
Hispanic or Latino	35
Not Hispanic or Latino	DNA
Black or African American	93
White	11
Gender
Female	6
Male	47
Education level
Less than high school	DNC
High school graduate	DNC
At least some college	DNC
Select populations
Males aged 15 to 24 years	152

DNA =Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU =Data are statistically unreliable.

The United States has the highest rates of lethal childhood violence than every other industrialized country.(27) The increase in the total homicide rate from 1979 through 1993 resulted solely from increases in firearms homicides.(28) Fatalities, however, are only part of the problem. For each of the 35,957 persons killed by a gunshot wound in the United States in 1995, approximately 3 more received nonfatal wounds.(29)

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