Thursday, December 26, 2024
12/26/2024
By maintaining the Delaware Violent Death Reporting System (DVDRS), Delaware will conduct strategic activities, including collecting comprehensive information on all violent deaths, to guide and evaluate prevention policy and program decisions to reduce violent deaths and violent death behaviors in Delaware. Delaware will collect and disseminate accurate, timely, and comprehensive surveillance data on all violent deaths occurring statewide using CDC guidelines and the CDC web-based data entry system. Delaware has strong data-sharing relationships with required providers. Through memoranda of understanding, electronic lists of death certificates from the Delaware Health Statistics Center, paper reports on-site at the Division of Forensic Science in Wilmington, DE, and centralized law enforcement reports electronically via Delaware Criminal Justice Information System (DELJIS) are made available to DVDRS staff for the abstraction process. Delaware fully expects to achieve the following key outcomes: (a) improved completeness, timeliness, and quality of violent death surveillance data, (b) stronger relationships with key partners, (c) increased access to DVDRS data by the public and partners to inform their violence and injury prevention activities, (d) increased violent death surveillance by partners to inform violence prevention programmatic and policy decisions, and (5) increased ability to describe the geographic distribution of violent deaths and understand the social determinants of health in relation to violent death-related health disparities. To achieve these outcomes, Delaware will focus on the following four primary strategies: (1) collect DVDRS data, (2) analyze, interpret, and disseminate DVDRS data, (3) plan, monitor, and evaluate DVDRS, and (3) build analytical capacity.
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