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Core Concepts in Health, 9/e
Paul M. Insel, Stanford University School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University School of Medicine

Personal Safety: Protecting Yourself from Unintentional Injuries and Violence

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Table 23-1 (See p. 646 in your text.)

Unintentional Injuries in the United States

Statistics on unintentional injuries are available from the following:

http://www.nsc.org National Safety Council (see especially their http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statstop.htm Research and Statistics page)

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc CDC National Center for Injury Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention World Health Organization: Violence and Injury Prevention

Table 23-2 (See p. 647 in your text.)

Lifetime Odds of Death Due to Injury

Statistics on unintentional injuries are available from the following:

http://www.nsc.org National Safety Council (see especially their http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statstop.htm Research and Statistics page)

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc CDC National Center for Injury Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention World Health Organization: Violence and Injury Prevention

Figure 23-3 (See p. 660 in your text.)

Facts about violence in the United States

Statistics on violence and intentional injuries are available from the following:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs Bureau of Justice Statistics

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm Federal Bureau of Investigation: Uniform Crime Reports

http://www.ncjrs.org Justice Information Center

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention World Health Organization: Violence and Injury Prevention