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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


Resources

Advocacy Training

Advocacy is one of the cornerstones of SAVIR's misssion. To assist members in knowing how to become an effective advocate these resources may be helpful.

Employment Opportunities

Announcements of Available Positions.

Journals

Links to other injury-related journal home pages and table of content listings.

Links to partners, related organizations, injury and violence statistics sources, and useful resources.

A dynamic database of current & recent research & education projects conducted by SAVIR member injury control research centers.

SAVIR Amazon Store

These books, and all items in the SAVIR Store, are securely purchased through the Amazon Associate Program. This directly helps SAVIR through a 4% (or more) referral recovery rate. Any item (books, computers, cameras, clothing, etc.) purchased through the SAVIR Store qualifies. Have your students, family, and friends do all their Amazon shopping here to help SAVIR grow. Thank you for your support!

Success Stories

SAVIR interviewed researchers at CDC funded and other injury/violence centers about their research accomplishments that have had an identifiable impact on the public health and financial effects of injury and violence. These narratives were used to document the cost effectiveness of research in injury and violence control. SAVIR used this material on this web site and for distribution of public education efforts through other media.

A listing, by Center, of periodically taught injury related courses.

QuickTime Videos of 44Fish Website Modules of OnContent, OnView, and OnDelivery Components.  The OnContent module offers a straightforward WYSIWYG environment for editing web pages while maintaining site-wide standards.  The OnView module is specific to the Member database, and the OnDelivery module is for email campaigns.