Overview and Examples of Center for Disease Control's (CDC) Surveillance Activities (From Trends, Risks, and Interventions in Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Third Annual Spring Symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group, P 321-355, 1995, Carolyn Block and Richard Block, eds.)

• NCJ Number: 159915
• Author(s): J A Mercy
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 35 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
• Publication Type: Survey
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. NIJ Research Report, See NCJ-154254 for complete document.

Annotation

This paper describes plans, new developments, and uses of surveillance data on violence at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Abstract

CDC builds its prevention efforts on the basis of public health surveillance. Public health professions use surveillance systems focusing on mortality and morbidity associated with violence to disseminate information on homicide as a cause of death, to monitor public health objectives for homicide, to examine epidemiological characteristics of different types of homicide, to describe patterns of homicide victimization in minority populations, and to study physical child abuse. The surveillance systems described here relate to nonfatal violent injuries, behaviors and risk factors, firearm injuries, family and intimate violence, and risk characteristics of injury-related mortality. 3 tables, 7 references, and 9 exhibits