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For Immediate Release December 18, 2006 |
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New Studies Shed Light on Circumstances Associated with Violent Deaths
New Studies Shed Light on Circumstances Associated with Violent Deaths Findings also include data on suicides, homicides, and homicide-suicides from 2003-2004
What: | A series of studies published today in the supplement to the journal of Injury Prevention present in-depth findings on homicide, suicide, and child maltreatment that are based on the most comprehensive data on violent deaths available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). |
Who: | The data in the studies were collected by CDC's National Violent
Death Reporting System (NVDRS). NVRDS is a state-based
surveillance system that links death certificates, coroner/medical
examiner and law enforcement records relating to violent deaths in 17
states. Together, the studies, which utilized data from multiple
regions of the country, identify circumstances associated with violent
deaths including those factors associated with suicides, homicides, legal intervention, unintentional firearm deaths and deaths of undetermined intent. The NVDRS also fosters collaboration
for building successful violence prevention programs that save lives.
The December Injury Prevention supplement includes these articles:
The supplement is sponsored by CDC. |
When: | To look at these and other articles link to Injury Prevention's |
Web site: | http://ip.bmj.com or http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/. For more information about CDC's work in violence prevention, please visit the CDC Injury Center's website at www.cdc.gov/injury. |
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