Injury Data and Resources

The purpose of this Web site is to provide an overview of the sources of national level injury data available from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and to provide details on the injury morbidity and mortality data collection systems, surveys and coding schemes used to collect and categorize the data. Links to other injury data are provided. 

 Injury FASTATS
All Injury
Accidents/Unintentional Injuries
Assault/Homicide
Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
Work-related Injury/Occupational Injury

Presentations
Injury Data Basics, Revised version of Safety in
Numbers 2003-This presentation provides information on: injury surveillance, assessment of injury data sets, tools for coding injury data, Federal, State, and local data sources, communicating and disseminating data.
View/download PPT 19 MB
Contacts: Lois Fingerhut, Sue Scavo Gallagher,
Margaret Warner, and Melissa Heinen

Other Injury-Related Presentations

National Databases
Mortality data
Morbidity
Hospital Inpatient Data
Ambulatory Care Data 
Emergency Department Visit Data
Outpatient Department Visit Data
Physician Office Visit Data
Health Interview Survey Data
Health Examination and Interview Survey Data

Tools and Frameworks

Related Injury Web Sites 

Related Injury Listservs  

Contact Information
Lois Fingerhut, Special Assistant for Injury Epidemiology
E-mail: LFingerhut@cdc.gov

This page last reviewed May 05, 2004