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Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
State Injury Surveillance Program
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Public
health surveillance has been defined as: the ongoing,
systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data essential to
the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public
health practice, closely integrated with the timely
dissemination of these data to those who need
to know. The final link in the surveillance chain is
the application of these data to prevention and control.
A surveillance system
includes a functional capacity for data collection, analysis,
and dissemination linked to public health programs
(CDC 1998). Click the pyramid to view Kentucky injury surveillance data for 2001.
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| The State Injury Surveillance Program at KIPRC is funded by the Kentucky Department for Public Health.
Its responsibility is to implement statewide surveillance of injuries to Kentuckians. Currently the
core databases utilized are the Kentucky Death Certificates files and Inpatient Hospital Discharge files.
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