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National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
A Federal resource for professionals, parents and youth working to prevent violence committed by and against young people.
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- Assessing Youth Health Risk Behaviors Among Young People: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 2004
This report details the purposes the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, lists risk behaviors linked to the leading causes of death, and describes the CDC's role in ensuring the availability of information on youth health risk behaviors. - US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System
The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) is part of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. NVSS is responsible for the nation's official vital statistics, including collecting and publishing data on deaths in the United States. Through ...- US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began studying home and recreational injuries in the early 1970's and violence prevention in 1983. From these early activities grew a national program to reduce injury, disability, death, and costs associated with injuries outside the workplace ...- US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics
The United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), was first established on December 27, 1979 under the Justice Systems Improvement Act of 1979, Public Law 96-157 (the 1979 Amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Pu ...
External Resources
- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
This Web site contains information on national- and state-based leading causes
of death.
Federal Partner: Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
- Homicide Trends in the United States
This site contains a series of charts that describe homicide patterns and trends
in the United States since 1976. According to the data, homicide is of interest
not only because of its severity but also because it is a fairly reliable barometer
of all violent crime.
Federal Partner: U.S. Department of Justice
- Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
This Web site is an interactive system that provides injury-related mortality
data useful for research and for making informed public health decisions. Injury
Mortality reports can be used to determine injury deaths and death rates for
specific external causes of injuries. Leading Causes of Death reports can be
used to determine the number of injury-related deaths relative to the number
of other leading causes of death in the United States or in individual states.
Federal Partner: National Center for Injury Prevention Center (NCIPC), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Center for
Health Statistics (NCHS) - National Death Index
The National Death Index (NDI) is a central computerized index of death record
information on file in the state vital statistics offices. Working with these
state offices, NCHS established the NDI as a resource to aid epidemiologists
and other health and medical investigators with their mortality ascertainment
activities.
Federal Partner: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Vital Statistics System
The National Vital Statistics System is responsible for the Nation's official
vital statistics. These vital statistics are provided through State-operated
registration systems.
Federal Partner: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Web site
The Bureau of Justice Statistics can provide information on crime statistics
and homicide trends.
Federal Partner: U.S. Department of Justice
