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Each year, more than 53,000 Americans die violent deaths. We need solid data to help us inform prevention strategies and reduce the toll.

Housed in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) can help. The National Violence Prevention Network is a broad coalition of public health officials, anti-violence organizations and law enforcement groups working to get NVDRS completed and fully funded. Here’s how you can help.

 

  

 
 
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  • May 2013: Congressional Testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on NVDRS posted on PreventViolence.net  [MORE]
  • April 2013: Public Health/Nursing Student writes Hartford Courant Letter to the Editor highlighting need for public health strategies for violence prevention.  [MORE]

 
  • The NVDRS is a comprehensive, linked reporting system that collects and centralizes information on homicides and suicides from a variety of sources, such as medical examiners and coroners, law enforcement, hospitals, public health officials and crime labs. [MORE]

  • View members of the National Violence
    Prevention Network
  • Virginia publishes a new report, Elder Suicide in Virginia: 2003-2010. Released March 2013. [MORE]
  • Maryland publishes original research in Suicidology Online, "A Comparison of Suicide Characteristics and Precipitating Circumstances by Age Group Among Maryland Residents: Data from the Maryland Violent Death Reporting System, 2003-2009" Released December 2012 [MORE]
  • Alaska releases three new bulletins: Homicide and Legal Interventions 2007-2011, Suicide Update 2007-2011, Summary of Violent Deaths Update 2007-2011[MORE]

 

  
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