Each year in the United States, more than 59,000 people die from acts of violence, including more than 42,000 deaths from suicide and 16,000 deaths from homicide.1 Many of these and other violent deaths can be prevented. An essential first step is to ensure the availability of complete, accurate and timely information about these deaths from violence, particularly about populations at risk and the circumstances and factors contributing to these deaths.
To collect this critical information, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) in 2002.2 Funded by CDC, the NVDRS is the only national state-based surveillance reporting system that compiles data from multiple sources on all deaths from violence – including homicides, suicides, legal interventions, and deaths from acts of terrorism.
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