15-12.
Reduce hospital emergency department visits caused by injuries.
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15-12. | |
Reduce hospital emergency department visits caused by injuries. |
Target: 126 hospital emergency department visits per 1,000 population.
Baseline: 131 hospital emergency department visits per 1,000 population were caused by injury in 1997 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), CDC, NCHS.
|
Total Population, 1997 |
Injury-Related |
|
Rate per 1,000 |
|
|
TOTAL |
131 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
DSU |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Asian |
DSU |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Black or African American |
182 |
|
White |
127 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
DSU |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
DSU |
|
Black or African American |
DSU |
|
White |
DSU |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
116 |
|
Male |
146 |
|
Education level |
|
|
Less than high school |
DNC |
|
High school graduate |
DNC |
|
At least some college |
DNC |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not
collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.