Thursday, April 25, 2024
4/25/2024
Project Abstract Summary The New Mexico Violent Death Reporting System [NMVDRS] began collecting data in 2005. The Department of Health is responding to the current Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement: CDC-RFA-CE22-2201 to continue collection of the data to guide and improve the understanding of violence and to conduct violence prevention work in NM. The purpose of the NMVDRS is to collect and disseminate accurate and useful information about violent deaths in New Mexico to guide effective violence prevention practice and policy within our communities and with our violence prevention partners. New Mexico had the highest age-adjusted state rate of violent deaths (e.g., homicides, suicides, and legal interventions) in the United States (US) during 2020 at 35.9 deaths per 100,000 persons, according to CDC’s WONDER. New Mexico had the 11th highest age-adjusted homicide rate at 10.8 deaths per 100,000 persons, and the 4th highest age-adjusted suicide rate of 24.2 deaths per 100,000 persons in the US during 2020 (WONDER). According to NMVDRS data, violent death age-adjusted rates in New Mexico were 29% higher for Blacks/African Americans and 21% higher rate for American Indians/Alaskan Natives when compared to non-Hispanic whites; and 230% greater rate for men when compared to females between 2017 and 2019. Individuals between 20-34 years of age in New Mexico are at greatest risk for violent deaths with a rate of 53 deaths per 100,000 residents. New Mexico counties with some of the greatest age-adjusted rates for violent deaths from 2017-2019 include McKinley (49 deaths per 100,000 residents), Eddy (47 deaths per 100,000 residents), Lincoln (45 deaths per 100,000 residents) and San Juan (44 deaths per 100,000 residents). Both McKinley and San Juan counties have a strong tribal government presence partly due to the “patchwork” nature of the Navajo Reservation. The Mexico Department of Health [NMDOH] is seeking initial and ongoing financial support in the amount of $245,091 annually to collect and disseminate accurate, timely, and high-quality surveillance data on all violent deaths occurring in the state of New Mexico (option 1) using Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and the CDC web-based data entry system. NMDOH will request an additional $100,000 to develop an NVDRS dashboard when those funds become available. During 2023 – 2027, the NM-VDRS is focused on continuing to build strong partnerships and networks among local communities and with violence prevention partners in New Mexico. NMDOH will focus especially on improving the five key areas outlined by the CDC for this funding cycle—improving surveillance data; establishing new partnerships; strengthening existing partnerships; improving the use of surveillance data; and improving capacity for geographical and social determinant linkages. The opportunities that the NMVDRS data provide to identify and address violence in communities will be leveraged collaboratively in 2023 – 2027 to support violence prevention partners in reducing the high rates of violence in New Mexico. One example of NMVDRS supporting violence interventions is providing data to select and evaluate grantee interventions using the State’s Violence Intervention Fund that was appropriated in the 2022 legislature.
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