Core Concepts in Health Brief, 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

Vital Statistics

Table 16-1 (See p. 370 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

Figure 16-3 (See p. 379 in your text.)
Victim-offender relationship among adult victims of violence

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

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