CDC's Injury Center Publication Descriptions

This page contains a short description of each NCIPC publication.  Some of these publications are out of print and available only in electronic format.
 

Activity Report 2001: CDC’s Unintentional Injury Prevention Program Unintentional injuries are a leading cause of death for all Americans, regardless of age, race, gender, or economic status. The Division of Unintentional Injury and Prevention (DUIP), part of CDC’s Injury Center, has produced a report detailing their achievements to prevent such injuries and to minimize their consequences. The Activity Report 2001: CDC’s Unintentional Injury Prevention Program highlights DUIP’s research and programmatic accomplishments in motor vehicle and home and recreation injury areas during 2000-2001.

Alcohol Problems Among Emergency Department Patients: Proceedings of a Research Conference on Identification and Intervention This comprehensive report presents proceedings of a jointly sponsored conference convened on March 19­21, 2001.  The conference brought together researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders from around the country to review current knowledge about alcohol problems among emergency department (ED) patients and about ED-based screening and intervention method.

Atlas of Injury Mortality Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Youth (Executive Summary) During 1989-1998, injuries caused the deaths of 3,718 Native American children, aged 0-19 years, residing in the Indian Health Service areas. Injury is the leading cause of death for all American children, but poses a particular threat to Native American children. To reduce this disparity, increased efforts should be made to protect Native American children and to narrow the gap with other children in America.

Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook For Community Action This is the quintessential sourcebook for community action. It outlines four scientifically proven and effective strategies - Parent and Family-based, Social-Cognitive, Home Visiting and Mentoring.

Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention, Spanish version Prácticas Óptimas para la Prevención de la Violencia Juvenil: Libro de Referencia para la Acción Comunitaria  permite un mejor entendimiento acerca de las prácticas que hacen que funcionen los programas de prevención. Es el primer documento en su tipo que analiza la efectividad de prácticas específicas en cuatro áreas principales: padres y la familia, visitas en el hogar, sociocognoscitiva y de padrinazgo.

Bibliography of Behavioral Science Research in Unintentional Injury Prevention includes more than 900 citations of journal articles, book chapters, government reports, and other publications. Designed as a tool for researchers, practitioners and students, this bibliography documents the contributions of behavioral and social sciences to unintentional injury prevention and control from 1980–2003. The CD-Rom includes the complete bibliography in two formats: (1) alphabetical by author; and (2) by injury topic. Citations are also indexed by keyword.

CDC Injury Research Agenda The CDC Injury Research Agenda was developed with extensive input from its academic research centers, national nonprofit organizations, and other federal agencies with a stake in injury prevention.. This blueprint to prevent injuries and their resulting disabilities, deaths, and costs will guide research in seven key areas of injury prevention and control.  The agenda identifies CDC’s highest priorities for each area—those research issues that CDC must address to fulfill its public health responsibilities.  This publication is currently available only in HTML format; it will be available from the publications order form and in PDF format soon.

Check for Safety: A Home Fall Prevention Checklist for Older Adults (also available in Spanish) Falls are often due to hazards that are easy to overlook but easy to fix.   This checklist will help you find and fix those  hazards in your home.   The checklist asks about hazards in each room of your home.  For each hazard, the checklist tells you how to fix the problem.  At the end of the checklist, you will find other tips for preventing falls.

Cost of Injury in the United States: A Report to Congress  Published in 1989, this report has proved to be a landmark publication articulating the need to address injury as a public health problem. This volume examines the economic impact resulting from the failure to deal with injury as a major threat to public health. The report identifies, for the first time, the magnitude of the economic effect of injury on the US in statistical and human terms through reliable dollar estimates and compelling case studies. The report also identifies public health efforts that have succeeded in reducing the impact and burden of injury on Americans.

Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States  This report describes briefly the development of the requested study; presents findings for the estimated incidence, prevalence, and costs of nonfatal and fatal IPV; identifies future research needs; highlights CDC’s research priorities for IPV prevention.

Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems NCIPC is coordinating a national effort to develop uniform specifications for data entered in emergency department (ED) patient records. The initial product is Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems, Release 1.0.

Demonstrating Your Program's Worth:  A Primer on Evaluation for Programs to Prevent Unintentional Injury This book shows program managers how to demonstrate the value of their work to the public, to their peers, to funding agencies, and to the people they serve.  Our purpose is to show that managers and staff need not be apprehensive about what evaluation will cost or what it will show.

Efforts to Increase Smoke Detector Use in U.S. Households: An Inventory of Programs Each year in the United States, thousands of people die or are severely injured by fires and burns.  One of the most effective ways to prevent deaths and injuries from fires is to install and maintain smoke detectors in households. As part of this effort, CDC's Injury Center conducted a nationwide survey in 1994 to identify the various strategies being used to increase the use of smoke detectors in homes. This publication features the descriptions of 49 programs from 33 states as well as two national programs.

Emergency Department Services for Patients with Alcohol Problems: Research Directions This report summarizes recommendations on research directions developed from the conference "Alcohol Problems among Emergency Department Patients:  Research on Identification and Intervention."  The conference was developed in order to evaluate the existing state-of-the-art research on emergency department interventions for alcohol problems and offer further recommendations for research.

Exposure to and compliance with pediatric injury prevention counseling--United States, 1994 Because injuries are the leading cause of death in children, injury prevention counseling is recommended as part of routine pediatric care. Increasing such counseling is a national health objective. Estimating the proportion of US children who receive such counseling and assessing their compliance with safety recommendations may help improve counseling efforts.

Facts about Concussion and Brain Injury and Where to Get Help A blow or jolt to the head can cause a type of mild brain injury called a concussion.  This brochure explains what can happen after a concussion, how to get better, and where to go for more information and help when needed.

Información Acerca de la Lesión Cerebral Leve  Facts About Concussion and Brain Injury: Where to Get Help ya fue traducida al español. Este folleto de 18 páginas está escrito para las personas con lesiones en el cerebro y sus familiares o quienes están encargados de cuidar su salud. El folleto ofrece información sobre las lesiones del cerebro, sus síntomas, consejos para sanar, y otros recursos. El folleto también destaca una línea telefónica gratuita de ayuda, ofrecida por la Asociación Americana de Lesiones del Cerebro en la cual las personas interesadas pueden obtener información y recursos adicionales. Miembros de la comunidad hispana, compuesta por una gran variedad de personas de diversos orígenes étnicos y raciales, participaron en el desarrollo, diseño y traducción de este folleto.

Fatal Firearm Injuries, 1962-1994 This report reviews the descriptive epidemiology of firearm-related mortality in the United States from 1962-1994. The patterns of overall firearm-related mortality and of homicide, suicide, unintentional death, deaths occurring during legal intervention, and deaths of undetermined intent are examined by race, sex, and age group.

Firearm-Related Injury Surveillance, 1998 The articles in this volume report on progress that has been made in the surveillance of firearm-related injuries.  There are several papers that provide a background to help understand the need for firearm-related injury surveillance. The remaining articles describe state-based firearm-related injury surveillance programs, providing a rich cache of practical lessons for successfully implementing firearm-related injury surveillance.

Framework for Presenting Nature of Injury Data The Barell Injury Diagnosis Matrix: Classification by Region of Body and Nature of Injury

Heads Up: Brain Injury in Your Practice At least 1.5 million people sustain traumatic brain injuries in this country every year. Of those, approximately 1.1 million, or 75 percent, sustain a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). Yet, many are not hospitalized or receive no medical care at all. The CDC, working with a number of partners, has developed a new physician tool kit to improve clinical diagnosis and management of MTBI. Physicians can play a key role in helping to reduce the occurrence of MTBI by educating patients and the community about risks and injury prevention.

Home and Leisure Injuries in the United States This compendium contains all of the MMWR articles concerning home and leisure injuries published from 1985 through 1995; a summary public health message precedes each article.The public health approach to preventing home and leisure injuries represented in this compilation covers areas related to surveillance, risk factors, and interventions.

Homicide and Suicide Among Native Americans, 1979-1992 The information in this report should be useful to public health practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in addressing the problem of homicide and suicide among Native Americans. From 1979-1992, 4,718 American Indians and Alaskan Natives (Native Americans) who resided on or near reservations died from violence--2,324 from homicides and 2,394 from suicide.

Injury Fact Book 2001–2002 CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control is pleased to bring you a comprehensive look at the injury problem in America and efforts underway to reduce it. The Fact Book offers a wealth of injury data and descriptions of CDC research and prevention programs for a full spectrum of injuries—from those related to alcohol use to those resulting from youth violence. New to this year’s Fact Book: An in-depth explanation of the public health approach to injury prevention Descriptions of our data sources A sampling of our many partners A look at how injury affects various population group Thorough discussions of nearly two dozen injury issues, presented alphabetically A reference list of CDC publications and other injury prevention resources

Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault: A Guide to Training Materials and Programs for Health Care Providers To  increase the ability of health care providers to identify and treat cases of IPV and refer the victims to agencies that can assist them further, and because we receive so many requests from health care providers for information on training programs and training materials, we produced this guide to help individuals and organizations find appropriate group-training or self-training materials.

Intimate Partner Violence Surveillance: Uniform Definitions and Recommended Data Elements This is a set of recommendations designed to promote consistency in the use of terminology and data collection related to intimate partner violence.

Inventory of Federal Data Systems in the United States Adobe Acrobat required to view or print this document. This is an inventory of federal data systems that provide national data on injuries in the United States. We have identified 31 data systems that provide data useful for injury surveillance, research and prevention activities. This report provides a brief summary of each system, including how to access the data, data collection methods, data sources, and types of data obtained.

Lifeguard Effectiveness:  A Report of the Working Group This report, published in October 2001 by CDC’s Injury Center, assesses lifeguards as a strategy for preventing drowning and water-related injuries. The product of an expert meeting and a review of data from the United States Lifeguard Association (USLA) and other sources, the report will help communities, local government officials, and owners of private water recreational areas make informed decisions about whether to begin, retain, or discontinue lifeguarding services.

Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools This compendium provides researches and prevention specialists with a set of tools to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence. Most of the measures in this compendium are intended for use with youths between 11 and 20 years, to assess factors such as attitudes towards violence, aggressive behavior, conflict resolution strategies, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and exposure to violence.

National Strategies for Advancing Child Pedestrian Safety This publication offers ideas for encouraging children to explore their environments by walking while reducing their risk of pedestrian injury.

National Violent Death Reporting System Implementation Manual More than 46,000 people die from homicides and suicides each year in the United States, yet there is a lack of basic information about the characteristics and circumstances of these violent deaths at the local, state, and national levels that could help prevent them. CDC’s Injury Center has developed a National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) Implementation Manual to promote the development of a uniform violent death reporting system. The Manual will also serve as a training tool for public or private agencies wishing to implement a similar reporting system in their own jurisdiction. Data from this system can be compared across states and localities and will help practitioners and policy makers design and evaluate local, regional, and national prevention programs and to make informed decisions about violence prevention.

National Violent Death Reporting System Coding Manual The NVDRS Coding Manual is a reference document to be used by state health departments for defining cases, entering data, and checking data once it is entered. It contains information about individual variables and the way the data are structured. The Coding Manual is intended to be used in conjunction with the materials provided at the coding training and the NVDRS Software Manual. Other material related to setting up a state violent death reporting system can be found in the NVDRS Implementation Manual.

Recent Trends in Violence-Related Behaviors Among High School Students in the United States  Violence-related behaviors such as fighting and weapon carrying are associated with serious physical and psychosocial consequences for adolescents.  The objective of this study was to measure trends in nonfatal violent behaviors among adolescents in the United States between 1991 and 1997.

Recommended Framework for Presenting Injury Mortality Data This report provides a framework for the uniform tabulation and analysis of injury mortality data classified by the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) (a subsequent report will address the application of this framework to injury morbidity data).

Reducing Childhood Pedestrian Injuries: Proceedings of a Multidisciplinary Conference These proceedings served as the basis for the National Strategies for Advancing Child Pedestrian Safety.

Reducing Childhood Pedestrian Injuries: Summary of a Multidisciplinary Conference Released in June 2002, this special supplement of Injury Prevention includes recommendations from the National Strategies for Advancing Child Pedestrian Safety as well an executive summary of the multidisciplinary conference held on the issue.

Preventing Violence Against Women: Program Activities Guide The Violence Against Women Program Activities Guide describes CDC’s public health activities and research to prevent violence against women. The guide outlines five categories of activities which are key to CDC’s prevention work: monitoring and tracking the problem, developing and evaluating prevention strategies, supporting and enhancing prevention programs, providing prevention resources, and encouraging research and development.

Reducing Injuries to Motor Vehicle Occupants: Systematic Reviews of Evidence, Recommendations from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, and Expert Commentary This special supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) contains systematic reviews and recommendations regarding 13 community-based interventions to reduce motor vehicle-related injuries and deaths. The publication highlights results from systematic reviews of scientific literature on interventions to decrease alcohol-impaired driving, increase the use of child safety seats, and increase use of safety belts. The Task Force on Community Preventive Services, an independent, nonfederal panel of community health experts, issued their recommendations, based on demonstrated evidence of effectiveness from the reviews coordinated by CDC.

Report to Congress on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Steps to Prevent a Serious Public Health Problem CDC formed the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) Work Group, composed of experts in the field of brain injury, to determine appropriate and feasible methods for assessing the incidence and prevalence of MTBI in the United States. This report presents the significant findings and recommendations of the MTBI Work Group, which are the product of numerous discussions and a thorough review of the scientific literature. It describes the public health significance of MTBI and recommends how to better measure the magnitude of the problem in this country.

Revised Framework of E-code Groupings About the document Table 1. Recommended framework of E-code groupings for presenting injury mortality and morbidity data (June 15, 2001) E-code Grouping Look-up Tables: 1994-98 This is a direct link to a zipped (276K compressed) Excel '97 spreadsheet-based listing of ICD-9-CM 'injury' E-codes and their associated mechanism and intent groups (matrix) as defined by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

School-Associated Violent Deaths in the United States, 1994-1999   Although school-associated violent deaths remain rare events, they have occurred often enough for public health experts to begin to detect patterns and identify potential risk factors according to this new study, released December 5, 2001 in JAMA.

School-Associated Violent Deaths in the United States, 1992 to 1994 Objective:  To conduct the first nationwide investigation of violent deaths associated with schools in the United States, to quantify the risk of school-associated violent death, and to identify epidemiologic features of these deaths.  Conclusions: School-associated violent deaths were more common than previously estimated. The epidemiologic features of these deaths were similar to those of homicides and suicides that occur elsewhere.

Sexual Violence Surveillance: Uniform Definitions and Recommended Data Elements  Sexual violence is a significant public health problem in the United States. However, measuring the problem can be difficult due to the lack of consistency in the use of terminology and data elements for sexual violence. Without consistency, we cannot monitor and track trends for sexual violence to determine the scope of the problem. This publication offers recommendations crucial for standardizing definitions and data elements for sexual violence surveillance.

Special Supplement to Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior Employing an innovative approach to studying suicide attempters who either used a highly lethal method or would have died without medical help, CDC researchers have identified several non-traditional health risk factors that have rarely been included in suicide research. These non-traditional health associated risk factors include: acute alcohol use, changing residences, existing medical conditions, and characteristics of impulsive suicide behavior. The findings are published in a special supplement to the spring edition of Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (SLTB). SLTB is the official Journal of the American Association of Suicidology.

State Injury Indicators Report, 2nd edition -- 1999 Data CDC's Injury Center, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, and the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors’ Association present the second edition of the State Injury Indicators Report (SIIR) with 1999 data. The SIIR compiles injury data voluntarily collected by 26 state health departments. It consolidates data from hospital records, death certificates, and several national surveillance systems and provides the rates of various injuries (such as traumatic brain injuries, fire and burn injuries, and suicide) and related factors (such as using seat belts and smoke alarms). Findings are also categorized by sex and age.

State Injury Indicators Report CDC’s Injury Center, the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors’ Association (STIPDA), and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists have produced the first State Injury Indicators Report. This report presents data gathered by 12 states that participated in a new program to track and monitor injuries and related factors. It features— A brief overview of injuries in America  Health outcome data for 7 types of injuries for the 12 states reporting  Data about factors that can increase or decrease injury risk More than 25 charts depicting the data collected  Strategies for injury prevention.

Suicide in the United States, 1980-1992 From 1980 to 1992, the age-adjusted suicide rate for the total U.S. population rose only slightly.  Detailed analysis of the data reveals several notable trends in the age of suicide victims, the methods of suicide, and the geographic distribution of suicide cases.  Suicide rates increased among persons between the ages of 10 and 19 years, among black males, and among elderly males of all races.   Suicide rates for middle-aged adults declined, but the rate for Americans over age 60 increased for the first time since the late 1930s.

Systematic Reviews of Strategies to Prevent Motor Vehicle Injuries, 1999 This publication  provides systematic reviews of the literature on important strategies to prevent motor vehicle injuries.  It contains information on which strategies have been shown to be effective, which are ineffective, and which strategies have been inadequately evaluated that is important for both public policy and future research.

A Tool Kit to Prevent Senior Falls, 1999 For millions of older Americans, falls present a serious health risk. In the United States, one of every three persons age 65 and older falls each year. Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of injury deaths and the most common cause of injuries and hospital admissions for trauma.

Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States:  Assessing Outcomes in Children This report summarizes the comments, suggestions, and recommendations of a working group convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) outcomes in children and youth. It is intended for researchers, public health professionals—including those from state health departments—and advocates interested in furthering research on outcomes of TBI in children.

Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: A Report to Congress, 1999 This Federal report summarizes current knowledge about the incidence, causes, severity, associated disabilities, and prevalence of TBI.

U.S. Fall Prevention Programs for Seniors Selected Programs Using Home Assessment and Modification Among older adults, falls are a serious public health problem. In the United States, one of every three persons over age 65 falls each year and two-thirds of those who fall do so again within six months.

What YOU Can Do To Prevent Falls, brochure, 1999 (also available in Spanish) Falls are not just the result of getting older.  Many falls can be prevented.  Falls are usually caused by a number of things.  By changing some of these things, you can lower your chances of falling.

Youth Suicide Prevention Programs: A Resource Guide, 1992 This resource guide describes the rationale and evidence for the effectiveness of various youth suicide prevention strategies and identifies model programs that incorporate these various strategies.   The guide is for use by persons interested in developing or augmenting suicide prevention programs in their own communities.