Firefighter

Facts

Gender
At every age, injury death rates for males are higher than for females. The mortality sex ratio is highest, at four to one, for young people in their 20’s, and is lowest for children under 11 years of age (less than 2 to 1). Source: CDC/NCHS, Bergen G,Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008


Advocacy and Public Policy

SAVIR Advocacy and Public Policy Committee

Charges of this Committee are:

(1) To actively promote injury research;
(2) To pro-actively collect and disseminate injury research findings.  
(3) To partner with organizations to produce materials that educate the public and policymakers;
(4) To develop new liaisons with other public and private organizations; and
(5) To translate injury research into meaningful education for policymakers and other stakeholders.