Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
The Kansas Advancing Violence Epidemiology in Real-Time (AVERT) Program will enhance surveillance of ED visits for all firearm injuries (regardless of intent), other violence-related injuries, and mental health conditions, which can increase the risk for and be a negative outcome of violence-related injuries. The program will have the goals of: • Increasing the timeliness of aggregate reporting of ED visits for firearm injuries (regardless of intent), other violence-related injuries, and mental health conditions, and • Disseminating surveillance findings in a timely way to the public and key partners working to prevent and respond to violence. By collecting and disseminating timely information on ED visits for syndromes of interest the program will work to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with firearm injuries and other violence-related injuries among persons who now or in the future will be at-risk for these outcomes. Key outcomes of the Kansas AVERT Program will be: • Increased availability of rapid, reliable, and geographically- and population-specific surveillance data on ED visits for firearm injuries (regardless of intent), other violence-related injuries, and mental health conditions. • Increased use of timely information about trends in violence-related ED visits by state and local partners. • Increased use of geographically- and population-specific information about trends in violence-related ED visits by state and local partners. • Increased use of syndromic surveillance data to develop plans for focusing prevention and response strategies on populations at greatest risk of violence and related negative health outcomes by state and local partners.
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