Development of a Comprehensive and Interactive Tool to Inform State Violence and Injury Prevention Plans.

ABSTRACT: CONTEXT:The Center of Disease Control and Prevention's Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core SVIPP) provides an opportunity for states to engage with their partners to implement, evaluate, and disseminate strategies that lead to the reduction and prevention of injury and violence. Core SVIPP requires awardees to develop or update their state injury and violence plans. Currently, literature informing state planning efforts is limited, especially regarding materials related to injury and violence. Presumably, plans that are higher quality result in having a greater impact on preventing injury and violence, and literature to improve quality would benefit prevention programming. OBJECTIVE:(1) To create a comprehensive injury-specific index to aid in the development and revisi

SUBMITTER: Wilson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5784825 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan/Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature