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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
15-7. Reduce nonfatal poisonings.
Target: 292 nonfatal poisonings per 100,000 population.
Baseline: 348.4 nonfatal poisonings per 100,000 population in 1997 (age
adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data sources: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care System (NHAMCS), CDC, NCHS; NEISS, CPSC.
| Total Population, 1997 (unless noted) | Nonfatal Poisonings Rate per 100,000 |
| TOTAL | 348.4 |
| Race and ethnicity | |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | DSU |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | DSU |
| Asian | DSU |
| Native Hawaiian - Pacific Islander | DSU |
| Black or African American | 464.5 |
| White | 340.6 |
| Hispanic or Latino | DSU |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | DSU |
| Black or African American | DSU |
| White | DSU |
| Gender | |
| Female | 410.9 |
| Male | 281.6 |
| Education level | |
| Less than high school | DNC |
| High school graduate | DNC |
| At least some college | DNC |
| Select populations of poisonings | |
| Assault or attempted homicide | 6 (1996) |
| Intentional suicide attempts | 63 (1996) |
| Unintentional poisonings | 268 (1996) |
| Children aged 4 years and under | 460 |
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.
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Last modified: 22-Aug-2001.