Data Resources

National

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
WISQUARS - Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisquars
An interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data.

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Injury Maps
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/maps
Injury Maps gives you access to the geographic distribution of injury-related mortality rates in the United States. Allows you to create county-level and state-level maps of age adjusted mortality rates for the entire United States and for individual states.

United States Air Force
Department of Defense
Division of Violence Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
CDC
Suicide Prevention Among Active Duty Air Force Personnel
United States, 1990-1999
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml

Massachusetts

The Injury Surveillance Program
Bureau of Health Statistics Research and Evaluation
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
250 Washington Street, 6th Floor
Boston 02108
Phone: 617-624-5665
Fax: 617-624-5070
www.state.ma.us/dph/bhsre/isp/isp.htm

Massachusetts Department of Education
Health, Safety and Student Support Services Program
Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
781-338-3603
www.doe.mass.edu/hssss/program/youthrisk.html
The YRBS is conducted by the Massachusetts Department of Education with the Centers
For Disease Control and Prevention in randomly selected high schools every other year. It focuses on the major risk behaviors that threaten the health and safety of young people.

Boston Emergency Department Surveillance System
Boston Public Health Commission
Research Office
1010 Mass. Avenue 6th floor
Boston 02118
Phone: 617-534-4757
Fax: 617-534-2422
The Boston Emergency Department Surveillance System (BEDSS) is a surveillance project unique to the City of Boston, monitoring suicide attempts as well as other intentional child and adolescent injuries. The project is a collaboration among four hospital-based pediatric emergency departments and the Boston Public Health Commission. The four hospitals are Boston Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, New England Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital. It is estimated that these four hospitals see 95% of all pediatric (ages 3-18) emergencies in the city of Boston.

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