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Dear Violence and Injury Prevention Partners,

The ODH Violence and Injury Prevention Program (VIPP) is pleased to present our new and first comprehensive Burden of Injury in Ohio report.  Please visit our website to review the data available in the report for injury areas of interest to you.  The report uses multiple data sources (death certificates, hospital and ED data, behavioral risk factor surveillance, CDC cost estimates, etc.) to provide a comprehensive picture of the burden of injury in our state.

The report presents the epidemiology of injury over time and across the lifespan.  There are also detailed chapters focusing on injury by intent (i.e., homicide, suicide, unintentional) and mechanism (e.g., motor vehicle traffic, bicycle, pedestrian, poisoning, suffocation, falls, firearms).   These chapters also have focused sections (e.g., infant suffocation, falls among older adults, drug overdose/poisoning) to describe the populations most vulnerable to specific injuries in Ohio.  Each chapter provides detailed tables presenting the respective injury and violence numbers and rates by age group and sex (and race for death data) over time.   In addition, there are important chapters addressing traumatic brain injury and the economic burden of injury in Ohio.

We encourage you to take some time to review the report and we hope you will share this notice widely with your partners.  Please use these data as needed.  We look forward to hearing your feedback on the report and how we can improve future versions to better meet your data needs.  We also want to hear how you use the data to support your injury prevention efforts.  Please feel free to forward any feedback to me.

And stay tuned… we will be releasing county injury profiles soon for select counties.

Best,

Christy

Special acknowledgements to OHA for providing access to their data and to Matt Falb, the injury epidemiologist who worked tirelessly to produce this report.  I also want to thank the entire VIPP staff and the OIPP members who reviewed sections of the report and provided feedback. 

Christy Beeghly, MPH

Violence and Injury Prevention Program Administrator

Ohio Department of Health

246 N. High Street, 8th Floor

Columbus, Ohio 43215

614-728-4116

614-564 2409 FAX

Christy.Beeghly@odh.ohio.gov      

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