ABSTRACT
In the United States, injuries are the leading cause of death among persons ages 1–44. Among all causes of injuries, motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) lead to the greatest number of deaths. This chapter summarizes the three phases of the MVC disparity surveillance project and demonstrates use of linked driver's license information for MVC injury disparity surveillance, use of hospital-based MVC injury information, and use of geocoded data from injured drivers. Phase I study was based on injured MVC drivers and licensed drivers in Nebraska. The phase II project is based on the same at-risk population and incidence data as in phase I, with one more exclusion criterion: injured drivers who could not be found in the hospital discharge data between 2006 and 2010 were dropped. In phase III study, we used drivers' data from phase II with MAIS to reversely add census tract information from the Nebraska hospital discharge data, with the latter already being geocoded.
