Assault or Homicide
(Data are for the U.S.)
Health care use
- Number of emergency department visits for assault: 1.8 million
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 13
Mortality
All homicides
- Number of deaths: 18,573
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.2
- Cause of death rank: 15
Firearm homicides
- Number of deaths: 12,791
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 4.3
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2006, Tables B, 18
More data
- All Injuries
- Accidental/Unintentional Injuries
- CDC WONDER-Compressed Mortality File Underlying Cause-of-Death
- Deaths: Final Data for 2006
- Deaths: Injuries, 2002
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2004
- Fact Sheet: Data on Injuries
- Health Data Interactive
- Health, United States trend Tables on Injury
- Injury in the United States, 2007 Chartbook
- Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
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