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 North
Carolina – Phase Two Profile
Injury Violence
and Prevention, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Jeanne Givens
Address: 1915 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1915
Phone: 919-715-6448
Fax: 919-733-9575
E-mail: Jeanne.givens@ncmail.net
Website: www.dhhs.state.nc.us
CDC Project Officer: Joseph Russel
Phase
Two Milestones
- Assessed
1 of the 11 core data sets.
Program
Highlights
Technical
assistance provided by the state:
- Prepared
a study on drowning deaths in children at the request of the NC
Child Fatality Task Force.
- Conducted
seminars for public and private audiences on how to use the comprehensive
injury surveillance mortality data books (1989-1998) and hospital
discharge data (1997-1999) to public and private audiences.
Injury
activities initiated within the state:
- Conducted
an investigation about poisoning-related mortality from 1990-2001.
- Conducted
an investigation about deaths from unintentional drug overdoses,
1997-2001.
- Established
a task force to address deaths from unintentional drug overdoses.
- Testing
the pilot version of a death reporting system for violent deaths
in women and youth/adolescent suicides.
- Developing
a broad, incident-based, relational public health surveillance
system to support state counter-bioterrorism initiatives.
Evaluation
activities within state:
- Developed
a quality assurance protocol, which includes process evaluation,
for the North Carolina Emergency Department Database.
Additional
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