South carolina core sipp - unintentional injuries were the fifth leading cause of hospitalization and the third leading cause of death in south carolina (SC), resulting in 75,087 years of potential…

South carolina core sipp - unintentional injuries were the fifth leading cause of hospitalization and the third leading cause of death in south carolina (SC), resulting in 75,087 years of potential life lost in 2016. In a review of national data, south carolinians have higher injury rates in notice of funding opportunity (nofo) injury priority areas, adverse childhood experiences (aces), transportation safety (TS) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), than those seen nationally. Thirty two percent of SC adults reported having four or more aces, which is higher than 17% reported nationally. Preventing aces could reduce many health conditions in SC residents including heart disease, depression, and substance use disorders. Motor vehicle crashes (MVC) are the most common cause of injury-related death in SC. In 2019, SC led the nation in deaths per 100 million miles travelled (MMT) with 1.73 deaths per 100 MMT compared to 1.11 deaths MMT nationally. In 2019, SC had a total of 1,409 TBI-related injury fatalities and an age adjusted rate of 26.0 per 100,000 population, 50% higher than the national rate at of 16.9 per 100,000 population. These injuries create a large economic burden in SC. Between 2016 and 2019, injury-related incidents cost SC emergency departments a total of $6,948,015,065. Through the core state injury prevention program (sipp) funding opportunity, the SC department of health and environmental control (dhec) will build upon current partnerships to identify and respond to existing and emerging injury threats with data-driven public health action. The dhec division of injury and substance abuse prevention (disap) will work closely with the bureau of population health data analytics and informatics (phdai) and other multisectoral partners to engage in robust data and surveillance for aces, TS, and TBI. Specifically, disap and phdai will identify data sources, collect baseline morbidity and mortality data, link hospitalization and emergency room data with MVC data, study links between injury and violent deaths with the SC violent death reporting system (scvdrs), analyze SC youth risk behavioral surveillance survey (yrbss) and behavioral risk factor surveillance system (brfss) results, hold data walks, create a data dissemination, use and impact report and a public facing injury dashboard. These activities will inform prevention efforts in injury priority areas, disproportionately affected populations, and emerging injury trends. Through continuous quality improvement, assessment and evaluation, disap will work with existing partners to drive public health action and achieve impact. Partners include the overdose data-to-action team, SC office of rural health, revenue and fiscal affairs, dhec vital statistics, scvdrs advisory council, the alliance for a healthier south carolina, child well being coalition, traffic recording coordination committee, brain injury leadership council, nurse family partnership, and the SC epidemiological outcomes workgroup. Our partners all have a shared commitment to injury prevention and will participate in identifying data sources, data collection and analysis, program planning, implementation and evaluation. Disap will work collaboratively with partners to implement data-driven, evidence-based, high-impact, shared risk and protective factor approaches. Overall goals of the project include: to reduce and sustain injury morbidity and mortality associated with aces, transportation safety, and TBI; to reduce and sustain risk factors for aces, transportation safety, and TBI; and to increase and sustain protective factors for aces, transportation safety, and TBI.