The Washington State Department of Health's (DOH) Injury and Violence Prevention (IVP) Program is founded on the principle that injuries and violence are preventable.
Why are injury and violence data important?
People across Washington are working to reduce injury and violence. IVP uses data to identify priorities and develop interventions based on best practices. Researchers, the media, federal, state, and local public health professionals, and the public use data to:
- Characterize and monitor trends.
- Identify new or developing problems.
- Identify people at risk of injuries.
- Provide reliable data for program and policy decisions.
What’s here
The dashboard shows data on more than 20 causes of injury deaths and injury hospitalizations. You can view fatal and nonfatal injury data based on intent or mechanism.
Intent of injury describes whether the injury was inflicted on purpose or by accident, and whether the injury was self-inflicted or caused by another person.
Injury mechanism describes how the person was injured (i.e. the cause of the injury).
The information presented comes from death certificate data, hospital discharge data, and population data.
This dashboard is divided into three main sections: Frequent Injury Types, Injury Intent and Mechanism, and Leading Causes of Injury. These sections contain fatal and non-fatal injury metrics as well as demographic information. Data on drug overdoses is available in the Opioid and Drug Use Data Dashboard.
You can also search injury data on our Data Portal tool.
View the Data
Fatal and Nonfatal Injury Data
Additional Resources
DOH’s Injury and Violence Prevention program
Injury and Violence Prevention Guide, 2021 (PDF)
Opioid and Drug Use Data Dashboard
Unintentional Drug Overdose Data (SUDORS) Dashboard
CDC Injury and Violence Prevention
Health Youth Survey (HYS)
Contact Us
For information or questions related to the Washington Tracking Network, email DOH.WTN@doh.wa.gov.
Let us know how you have used our data
We love hearing about how our data is being used to make an impact on the health of Washingtonians. It also helps us to know what is meeting our users’ needs and how we can improve the information we provide. If you used our data, please tell us about it by sending an email to DOH.WTN@doh.wa.gov.
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