EPID 2670

National Violent Death Reporting System



EPI 2670

 

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Instructor:

  Thomas Songer,PhD

 

Lecture Description:

  This lecture outlines the National Violent Death Reporting System. It discusses the origins of the NVDRS and the current thinking underlying data collection in this surveillance system.


  On completion of the lecture, readers will be able to:

  • Describe the origins of the system in the FARS and NVISS
  • Describe the primary data components in the NVDRS
  • Identify the current status of the NVDRS



This lecture was last modified on 13 June 2008

For further information about the course, please contact Thomas Songer at tjs@pitt.edu

Thomas Songer, PhD
Dept. of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA