EPI2670

Injury Epidemiology

Injury Data Sources Resources

Suggested Reading

• Christoffel T, Scavo Gallagher S. Injury Prevention and Public Health. Aspen Publishers, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, 1999.
• Chapter 12
• Robertson LS. Injury Epidemiology; Research and Control Strategies, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998.
• Chapter 3

Journal Articles

• A comparison of two surveillance systems for deaths related to violent injury.
  Injury Prevention. 2005;11:5863. doi: 10.1136/ip.2004.00756
• A multinational injury surveillance system pilot project in Africa.
  J Public Health Policy. 2007 Dec;28(4):432-41.

Web Sites

• Injury Data Systems: An inventory of national injury data systems.
• Injury Surveillance Guidelines. Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• State of Pennsylvania Injury Data.
• NCHS Surveys and Data Collection Systems.
• Injury Databases & Published Statistics, from the Injury Control and Research Information Network
• Strategies to Improve External Cause-of-Injury Coding in State-Based Hospital Discharge and Emergency Department Data Systems.
  MMWR. March 28, 2008 / 57(RR01);1-15.
• Recommended Framework for Presenting Injury Mortality Data, A discussion on how to tabulate and analyze injury data.

 

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