Injury Prevention

Traumatic injuries are a serious public health problem among American Indians and Alaska Natives. The Centers for Disease Control finds they are the leading cause of death among American Indians and Alaska Natives between the ages of one and 44, and the third leading cause of death overall. These include injury death from car/pedestrian crashes, suicides, homicides, poisonings, drowning and residential fires. The Indian Health Service has made injury prevention a top priority.

• Indian Health Service -- Injury Prevention Program
  This Web site tells about programs and courses run by IHS in the area of accident and injury prevention. It also tells about funding for these programs.



• Injury Prevention Web
  A large list of links, and lists of books and online publications, conferences, lots of data all having to do with accident and injury prevention. Easy to navigate and keeping to standards of good web practice this general site is worthwhile.



• Native American Women: Barriers to living violence free
  Just one page that discusses the history of abuse against women in native American culture.



• The Prevention of Unintentional Injury Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children
  A policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics



• Violence Against Native Women
  A web site from North Dakota that has facts, legislation, and lists of programs, not just in North Dakota, that assist abused women. It also has information on sexual assault, elder abuse and other kinds of violence.