Injuries
Why is this important?
- Death and injury rates indicate the effectiveness of health and safety education, outreach, and prevention programs.
- Death and injury information provides insight into preventable dangers that children face in the community.
How are we doing?
- Across all age categories, unintentional falls and unintentional motor vehicle trauma are predominant issues in Sacramento County.
- Unintentional falls account for 18% of all non-fatal hospitalized injuries for children, youth, and young adults ages 0-24.
- Falls outnumber the next leading cause of injury for 0-14 year-olds by a 3 to 1 margin.
- Deliberately inflicted injury to self (attempted suicide) or others (assault/homicide) account for 26% of all non-fatal hospitalized injuries for youth and young adults 10-24.
Child Deaths
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Why is this important?
- Identifying how and why children die tells us a great deal about the well being of children in our community, and can facilitate the creation and implementation of strategies to prevent child deaths.
How are we doing?
- Nearly three-quarters of all child deaths (age 0-17) in 2010 and 2011 were caused by Perinatal Conditions (42%) and Congenital Anomalies (32%).
- More than 7% of all child deaths (age 0-17) were the result of homicide.
- Between 2007 and 2011, 60% of youth deaths (age 10-17) were injury related.
- 19% of youth age 10-17 died as a result of homicide betweeen 2007 and 2011, and 12% died as a result of suicide.
- 17% of youth age 10-17 died in motor vehicle related accidents.
Data Source for Non-Fatal Injuries: California Department of Public Health; EPICenter
Data Source for Child Deaths: Child Abuse Prevention Center (CAPC)
