New Injury Prevention Report Card Features State Mortality Rankings, Grades and Data on Injuries & Drug Overdoses
WHAT: Press briefing conference call to release The Facts Hurt: A State-By-State Injury Prevention Policy Report, including state-by-state injury death rates and rankings, and a report card for how well states scored on 10 key indicators of steps states can take to prevent injuries. Some featured topics include drug overdoses, motor vehicle crashes, suicides, homicides, falls, and child abuse and neglect.
The Facts Hurt report, which will be released by the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was developed in partnership with leading injury prevention experts from the Safe States Alliance and the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Prevention (SAVIR).
WHEN:
10-11 am ET, June 17
WHO:
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Jeffrey Levi, Ph.D., executive director, TFAH
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Corinne Peek-Asa, professor, associate dean for research, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
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Amber Williams, executive eirector, Safe States Alliance
HOW:
Please contact Albert Lang at 202-864-5941 or alang@tfah.org at TFAH to receive embargoed materials and/or reserve a line for the audio conference. You can access the call at 1-888-505-4375, with Passcode: 9733605.
The call will be moderated and recorded. Please call in a few minutes before the scheduled start time to avoid delays. The call is for credentialed media only.
The report will be made available on TFAH’s Web site, www.healthyamericans.org at 10 a.m. (ET) on June 17.
Embargoed materials available upon request.