Applied Methods in Violence-Related or Accidental Injury Surveillance Cooperative Agreements (U17)

Provides financial assistance to State and territorial health agencies to develop, implement, and/or evaluate new or existing methods and techniques used in accidental-injury and violence-related injury surveillance and /or prevention. Such injuries include violence against women; alcohol or firearm-related injury; bicycle or automobile-occupant injury; fire-related burns; head and spinal cord injury, and others. These methods and techniques are applicable to statewide injury surveillance systems and are replicable in other public health jurisdictions.