QuickStats : Death Rates for Three Selected Causes of Injury — National Vital Statistics System (U.S.), United States, 1979–2012

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• Alternative Title:
  Death Rates for Three Selected Causes of Injury — National Vital Statistics System (U.S.), United States, 1979–2012
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Chen, Li-Hui ; Fenelon, Andrew
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  In 2012, a total of 41,502 drug Poisoning deaths, 34,935 motor vehicle traffic deaths, and 33,563 firearm deaths occurred. The age-adjusted death rate for drug Poisoning more than quadrupled from 3.0 per 100,000 in 1979 to 13.1 in 2012. In contrast, the age-adjusted rate dropped from 22.1 to 10.9 for motor vehicle traffic deaths and from 14.7 to 10.5 for firearm deaths during this period. The age-adjusted drug Poisoning death rate exceeded the motor vehicle traffic death rate beginning in 2009.
  
  Source: CDC WONDER, compressed Mortality file, underlying cause-of-death, available at http://wonder.cdc.gov/mortsql.html.
  
  Reported by: Li-Hui Chen, PhD; Andrew Fenelon.
  
  
• Subjects:
  QuickStats
• Source:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014; 63(46):1095
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Charts, Diagrams, Etc.
• Genre:
  QuickStats
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  63
• Issue:
  46
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/84349/cdc_84349_DS1.pdf
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