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HIP 2020 Objectives: Injury

Healthy Kids

  • Reduce the substantiated child abuse rate for children under 18 years from 366 per 100,000 to 275 per 100,000.
  • Reduce the sexual assault rate in females 19 years or younger from 242 per 100,000 to 121 per 100,000.

Healthy Adults

  • Reduce the proportion of adults who have ever been threatened with intimate partner violence from 9% to 5%.
  • Decrease the annual domestic violence victim rate for adults from 437 per 100,000 to 328 per 100,000.
  • Reduce the annual arrest rate for adults related to driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol from 362 per 100,000 to 272 per 100,000.
  • Reduce the percent of self-reported drinking and driving among adults 18-34 years from 12% to 5%.

Healthy Older Adults

  • Reduce the annual rate of hospitalizations due to falls for persons 65 years and older from 162 per 10,000 to 130 per 10,000.