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Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Division of Family Health Services, Statewide Comprehensive Injury Prevention Program. 1987. Injuries in Massachusetts: A status report. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 94 pp.

Annotation: This document presents a picture of injuries in the State of Massachusetts in a five-year period. The surveillance and research produced a look at how injuries occur and to whom, the number and rate of injuries at the local level and made recommendations on injury prevention programming for Massachusetts. Injury pictures produced profiles on age, sex, cause of injury, potential years of life lost and a breakdown of injuries by locality. Specific interventions and recommendations were included in the conclusion. A summary report is also available. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Data, Emergency room data, External cause of injury codes, Hospital discharge data, Injury prevention, Intervention, Mortality, Needs assessment, Population surveillance, Research, Residential injuries, State plans, Transportation injuries
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