This storyboard depicts injury mortality in the United States from 1999 through 2014. Mortality is characterized using the underlying cause of death which,for injury deaths, refers to the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the injury. Two concepts are included in the circumstances of an injury death: intent of injury and mechanism of injury. Intent of injury describes whether the injury was inflicted purposefully (intentional injury) and whether purposeful, and whether the injury was self-inflicted (suicide or self-harm) or inflicted by another person (homicide). Injuries that were not purposefully inflicted are considered unintentional (accidental) injuries. Mechanism of injury describes the source of the energy transfer that resulted in physical or physiological harm to the body. Examples of mechanisms of injury include falls,motor vehicle traffic crashes, burns, or poisonings,and drownings (1,2). This storyboard allows the user to select subcategories of injury deaths based on intent and mechanism of injury. Numbers and rates are if for the subcategory selected by the user.
Source: cdc.gov