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Deaths due to Unintentional Injury: Distribution by Cause, New Jersey, 2020
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Why Is This Important?
Unintentional injury was the leading cause of deaths among persons aged 15-44 years and the fourth leading cause among all ages combined in 2020. Unintentional injuries are, for the most part, preventable.
Definition
Deaths with unintentional injury as the underlying cause of death. ICD-10 codes: V01-X59, Y85-Y86 Unintentional injuries are commonly referred to as accidents and include poisonings (drugs, alcohol, fumes, pesticides, etc.), motor vehicle crashes, falls, fire, drowning, suffocation, and any other external cause of death.
Data Notes
"Poisoning" includes drugs, alcohol, gases, pesticides, and other chemicals and noxious substances. "Suffocation" includes inhalation or ingestion of food, gastric contents, or other objects causing obstruction of respiratory tract; unintentional suffocation, strangulation, or hanging in bed or elsewhere; threat to breathing due to cave-in, falling earth and other substances; trapped in a low-oxygen environment; and other threats to breathing. "Other Injury Mechanisms" include other land transport (non-traffic, non-motor vehicle), non-land transport (air, water, etc.), struck by/against, machinery, firearm, hot object/substance or caustic substance, cutting/piercing, and other specified injuries.Data Source
Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of deaths due to specified unintentional injury typeDenominator:
Total number of deaths due to unintentional injury
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective IVP-03
U.S. Target: Reduce unintentional injury deaths to 43.2 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) by 2030
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/injury-prevention/reduce-unintentional-injury-deaths-ivp-03
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective IVP-11
U.S. Target: Reduce unintentional injury deaths to 36.4 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/injury-and-violence-prevention