The Injury Fact Book Second Edition

This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. For each of more than sixty causes of injury data are presented by age race sex geographic area urban/rural residence and per capita income. The second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports work aviation and large trucks. Also new are many analyses subdivided by four racial groups as well as age and sex made possible by the use of mortality data from a seven year period. The updated analyses of time trends throughout the book document major reductions in death rates over the past decade. As a statistical compilation the book offers users a quick reference to valuable detail much of which would otherwise be inaccessible. It also discusses reasons for many of the extreme differences among groups of people in injury death rates and describes promising avenues to prevention. This accessible readable reference will be valuable to public health personnel physicians epidemiologists safety planners and policy makers.