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Injury Surveillance Program

The Injury Surveillance Program gathers, analyzes, and interprets data on injuries in Massachusetts. This data is used to monitor injury trends, identify populations that are most impacted, guide programs and policy development.

More than 5,600 Massachusetts residents died because of injury in 2022. Over 500,000 injuries are treated in a Massachusetts hospital or emergency department every year.

Injuries are bodily harm – fatal or nonfatal - that can be caused by fires, motor vehicle crashes, drowning, sharp objects, firearms, being struck by an object, tripping and falling, pedestrian and bicyclist injuries, and more. Injuries can be unintentional (sometimes called “accidental”) or intentional, such as suicide and self-harm or homicide and assault related.

The good news is that most injuries are preventable! Injuries often occur in predictable patterns with recognizable risk factors and can be prevented using evidence-based policies and strategies.

Injury Surveillance Systems

We provide data from these systems and other data sources such as hospital and emergency department visits, health surveys, and vital records (death and birth data) to injury prevention professionals and partners, researchers, and the public.

Learn more about MAVDRS  Learn more about SUDORS  Learn more about WRISS 

What you need to know

Massachusetts injury facts & highlights  Annual statewide injury reports  Suicide data & reports  Transportation injury data  Statewide homicide data  Data briefs on traumatic brain injuries & sports-related concussions  Drug overdose and poisonings data 

Contact Information

Address

Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Bureau of Community Health and Prevention, 250 Washington Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
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Online

Email Injury Surveillance Program at mdph-isp@mass.gov

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