Publications          

Fact Sheets about Unintentional Injury Topics

• CDC Recommends Booster Seats for Children
• Child Passengers Killed in Alcohol-Related Crashes Usually Riding with a Drinking Driver
• Community-Based Interventions to Reduce Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries
• Feasibility of Expanding NEISS to Monitor Nonfatal Injuries Treated in US Emergency Departments  
• Graduated Driver Licensing Reduces Risk of Young Driver Crashes 
• Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries Among Older Adults: A Growing Public Health Concern  
• Reducing Motor Vehicle Crashes Among Young Drivers

• Sobriety Checkpoints Are Effective in Reducing Alcohol-Related Crashes

• Stronger State DUI Prevention Activities May Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving

Publications Available Online or for Order

• Activity Report 2001: CDC’s Unintentional Injury Prevention Program
• Bicycle Helmet Recommendations
• Demonstrating Your Program's Worth: A Primer on Evaluation for Programs to Prevent Unintentional Injury
• Efforts to Increase Smoke Detector Use in U.S. Households
• Home and Leisure Injuries in the United States: A Compendium of Articles from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1985-199
• Injury Mortality Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Youth, 1989–1998
  MMWR Article
  Fact Sheet
• Major Causes of Unintentional Injuries Among Older Persons
• National Strategies for Advancing Child Pedestrian Safety
• Nonfatal Choking-Related Episodes Among Children --- United States, 2001
• Prevention of Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries: A Compendium of Articles from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1985-1996
• Systematic Reviews of Strategies to Prevent Motor Vehicle Injuries, 1999 American Journal of Preventive Medicine
• A Tool Kit To Prevent Senior Falls is a collection of fact sheets, graphs and brochures about falls and fall prevention for older adults.
  • Check for Safety: A Home Fall Prevention Checklist for Older Adults - included in tool kit (also available in Spanish).
  • What YOU Can Do To Prevent Falls - included in tool kit (also available in Spanish).
• U.S. Fall Prevention Programs for Seniors
  Selected Programs Using Home Assessment and Modification
• Unpowered Scooter-Related Injuries --- United States, 1998--2000

 
Spotlights 

• Buckle Up America Week
• Child Passenger Safety Week
• Choking Episodes Among Children
• Dog Bite Prevention Week
• Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention
• Fire Prevention Week 
• Fireworks Safety Month
• International Day of Older Persons
• International Walk to School Day
• Community-Based Interventions to Reduce Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries
• Safe Boating Week
• Teens Behind the Wheel: Graduated Driver Licensing
• World Health Day 2004

Injury Maps: Online Mapping System
Unintentional injury, suicide, and homicide ranked among the top 15 leading causes of death in the U.S., with unintentional injury as the fifth leading cause of death.  When designing and implementing injury prevention programs, state and national geographic patterns in injury death are important considerations.  Injury mortality maps display state or national geographic patterns in injury death.

Injury Maps is CDC Injury Center's online mapping system that provides you with the geographic distribution of injury-related mortality in the United States. The system contains county-level maps of age-adjusted mortality rates in the contiguous United States and in each state. The system offers maps of mortality rates for nine major causes or types of injury-related deaths, including unintentional causes.  Maps may be printed or downloaded.

Maps from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics
NCHS offers maps of health statistics.  Several maps displaying NCHS data related to unintentional injuries are available from the NCHS website.