Developing the Miami-Dade County Injury Surveillance System: using surveillance to build community capacity for injury prevention.
The Miami-Dade County Injury Surveillance System was created as part of a hospital-based injury prevention program associated with the Injury Free Coalition for Kids. Initially the program utilized trauma center and mortality data to describe injury. However, as community programming and coalition-building developed, so did the demands on the surveillance system. Coalition partners and potential partners desired a more comprehensive and population-based system. As a result of the county-wide approach and open access to results, the surveillance system has engaged new partners and leveraged additional resources to injury prevention.
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D002648:Child; D003256:Community Participation; D003625:Data Collection; D019992:Databases as Topic; D004332:Drowning / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005431:Florida / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*