1. Alaska Native Injury Atlas
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This presentation was developed by staff from ANTHC Injury Prevention and Alaska Native EpiCenter
ANTHC Injury Prevention Program and
Alaska Native Epidemiology Center

2. What we wanted to do
ID the most frequent causes of injury death and hospitalization for Alaska Native people.
Compare injury rates of by age, gender, region
Highlight specific injury and injury prevention topics of interest
Provide a resource for grants, presentations, and reports.

3. Update

4. Data Sources Alaska Bureau of Vital Statistics
Alaska State Trauma Registry
Alaska Department of Labor

5. Staff Involved Epicenter Director 2 Epidemiologists
Senior statistician
Formatter me

6. Collaborators Behavioral Health staff Regional Injury Prevention staff
State Injury Prevention partners

7. Process Concerns
Data security
Data verification
Prioritization

8. Data Problems ICD Ecode ≠ Text cause Wrong region/community match
Blending ICD9 and ICD10 data

9. Content Decisions Injury groupings Regional data; small numbers
Cut-off/white space for every section
Color consistency
Suicide attempt date range

10. Case Identification Issues
Hospitalized fatalities: under-reporting vs. over-reporting
Cases with unknown parameters
Region: occurrence vs. residence
Rural vs. urban

11. Case Definitions: Poisoning
Alcohol poisoning fatality counts:
: 12 cases
: 102 cases
ICD codes discontinued 2007/2009, F1*.0: Mental & behavioral disorders due to use of …
ICD10
F10.x +
YEAR
X45.x
F10.x 12
215
227
102
101
203

12. Wording concerns Morbidity vs. Hospitalizations Alaska Native People
Crude rate
Region names

13. Compromises
Bullets
Male vs. Female
Injuries by Age
Footnotes!

14. Revisions Data presentation and consistency Kerning Color Spacing
Alignment: decimals, quilts
Footnotes: order, symbols
Figure and table numbers

15. Missed National Hospitalization numbers TBI National rate on maps
Domestic violence, abuse
Safety gear use
Transcription errors

16. Going Forward Better understanding of process
Learning mapping software
TBI
Hospital discharge data?
Atlas update every 5 years?

17. ANTHC INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAM
Hillary Strayer, Senior IP Specialist Jaylene Wheeler, IP Program Coordinator Jennifer Arnold, IP Program Associate
This is us

18. Thank You