NCHS - Injury Mortality: United States

Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Metadata Last Checked: June 26, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-04-21

This dataset describes injury mortality in the United States beginning in 1999. Two concepts are included in the circumstances of an injury death: intent of injury and mechanism of injury. Intent of injury describes whether the injury was inflicted purposefully (intentional injury) and, if purposeful, whether the injury was self-inflicted (suicide or self-harm) or inflicted by another person (homicide). Injuries that were not purposefully inflicted are considered unintentional (accidental) injuries. Mechanism of injury describes the source of the energy transfer that resulted in physical or physiological harm to the body.

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Complete Metadata

bureauCode	[ "009:20" ]
identifier	https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/vc9m-u7tv
issued	2018-03-07
landingPage	https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/index.htm
programCode	[ "009:020" ]
spatial	United States
temporal	1999/2016
theme	[ "National Center for Health Statistics" ]