Advancing Health Equity through Injury Prevention in Children and Adolescents: Analyzing and Leveraging Data across Child Safety Topics and Building Leadership Diversity

CSN supports Title V agencies in advancing health equity and reducing injuries and violence in children and adolescents by developing and disseminating topic-specific resources. This presentation will highlight three resources on TBI, firearm injury, and pedestrian injury. Each year on average, approximately 5,000 children and adolescents die from TBIs; 3,300 die by firearm injuries; and 500 die from pedestrian injuries. We leveraged data from NEISS expanded with NEISS-AIP, MCOD, and FARS to examine non-fatal TBI, fatal firearm suicide and homicide, and fatal child pedestrian injury, respectively. As the risk of injury varies across different factors, such as injury type, sex, race/ethnicity, urbanicity, and age, we will share information on injury disparities and identify priority areas for prevention.