Injury Disparities in Alaska

In 2001, the Maternal Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration funded a 2-year project to describe injury disparities experienced by Alaskan youth and young adult women, the Alaska Women and Children's Injury Disparities Project. The overarching goal of the project was to improve the ability of the Alaska Division of Public Health (DPH) as a whole to analyze, report on, and target racial and geographic disparities in childhood and maternal injury morbidity and mortality in Alaska.

Early in the process, a group of professionals already involved in injury prevention and control were brought together to form an advisory group that would provide ongoing guidance to DPH staff during the course of the project. The fruits of this collaboration include a set of Power Point presentations describing disparities in injury hospitalization and death, two fact sheets with selected highlights from the disparities analysis, and a list of injury resources containing web sites and addresses for Alaska-specific and national sources for injury-related information and data.

Fact Sheets & Printable Resources

Alaska Injury Facts, No.1: Injury Disparities in Alaska, May 2003
Alaska Injury Facts, No.2: Children's Injury Disparities in Alaska, May 2003
Alaska Injury Death & Injury Prevention Resource List

Analysis of Injury Disparities in Alaska - Deaths & Hospitalizations

Injuries in Alaska: A Focus on Disparities, Part I, Injury Deaths, 1981-2000
PDF (1 slide per page) | Powerpoint Presentation

Injuries in Alaska: A Focus on Disparities, Part II, Injury Hospitalizations, 1994-1999
PDF (1 slide per page) | Powerpoint Presentation

For more information about injuries and injury prevention efforts in Alaska, as well as links to many additional injury resources, please visit the Alaska Injury Prevention Program.