Injury and Violence Prevention
Publications

• Protective Factors and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (PDF)
  This data brief focuses on ACEs and their effects on youth in Minnesota, along with the benefits of protective factors in reducing the negative effects of ACEs.
• 2019 Suicides in Minnesota (PDF)
• A Review of the Research on Gun Injuries: Promising Prevention Strategies for Health Care (PDF)
  Learn strategies and recommendations to advance the prevention of gun violence - authored by the Minnesota Health Care Coalition on Violence.
• Alcohol-Related Deaths in Minnesota (PDF) This data brief focuses on alcohol-related mortality from 2001-2017.
• Alcohol and Suicide: White Male Youth in Minnesota (PDF) This report examines the link between alcohol and suicide focusing on White, non-Hispanic male youth.
• Alcohol Use among Youth in Minnesota 2016 (PDF)
  This data brief reports on alcohol use among youth as measured by the 2016 Minnesota Student Survey (MSS).
• An Assessment of Minnesota's Health Care and Public Health Response to Violence Against Women (PDF)
  Examines the prevention of violence against women through literature, current policy and practices and lists recommendations for change.
• Before you get on your bike with your new helmet - English, Brochure (PDF)
  Illustrated trifold brochure shows young riders how to fit bicycle helmets correctly and provides safety tips to parents.
• Bicycle Helmets: Make Sure They Fit Poster - English, letter size poster (PDF)
• Bicycle Helmets: Make Sure They Fit Poster - English, tabloid size poster (PDF)
• Bicycle Helmets: Make Sure They Fit Poster - Spanish, letter size poster (PDF)
• Charting: The Invisible Role of Physicians in Injury Prevention (PDF)
  Guides health care professionals in writing notes on patient charts to document unintentional injuries and abuse.
• Child Maltreatment Violence Data Brief: 2001-2002 (PDF)
  Describes cases of child maltreatment in Minnesota hospitals and child protective services.
• Communities First Cohort 1 (2018): A Project Engaging Communities in Sexual Violence Prevention (PDF)
• Communities First Cohort 2 (2019): A Project Engaging Communities in Sexual Violence Prevention (PDF)
• Costs of Sexual Violence in Minnesota, July 2007 (PDF)
  The state's first-ever report on the estimated economic impact of rape and other forms of sexual assault, which reports costs of almost $8 billion in 2005, including medical and mental health care for victims, lost work and other quality of life issues, victim services, and criminal justice costs.
• Difficult Conversations: A guide for funeral directors addressing deaths by overdose (PDF)
• Difficult Conversations: A guide for funeral directors addressing deaths by suicide (PDF)
• Domestic and Sexual Violence in Minnesota: Strategies for Prevention and Intervention (PDF)
  Outlines five-year objectives and strategies for professional and community education, coordination and collaboration, quality and consistency of services, policy development, and organizational commitment.
• Establishing a Baseline Measure for Evaluating Upstream, Primary Prevention Efforts: Quantifying Fatal Events Associated with Law Enforcement Service Calls and Encounters in Minnesota – 2016-2021 (PDF)
• Excessive Alcohol Use Data Brief 2016 (PDF)
  This data brief analyzes data from a number of data sources including death certificates, Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) crash reports, and survey data to examine the differences in consumption and mortality by age group, race/ethnicity, and gender.
• Facts on Falls for 2012 (PDF)
  Facts on falls among Minnesota adults.
• Factsheet: Suicides in the Minnesota Lao Community (PDF)
• Falls Data Brief 2015 (PDF)
• Firearm-Related Injury Violence Data Brief: 1998 to 2001 (PDF)
  Follows trends and demographics of Minnesotans injured and killed due to firearm injury.
• Fentanyl Test Strips to Prevent Drug Overdose - Fact Sheet for Public Health Workers (PDF)
  Fact sheet for public health workers on the importance of fentanyl test strips in overdose prevention.
• Fentanyl Test Strips to Prevent Drug Overdose - Fact Sheet for People Who Use Drugs (PDF)
  Fact sheet for people who use drugs explaining what fentanyl test strips are, how to use them, where to find them, and other overdose prevention strategies.
• Gender Affirming Care: 2023 Legislative Report (PDF)
  Describes the importance of gender affirming care, the current state of scientific evidence about the safety and effectiveness of gender affirming care, as well as its public health impacts. 
• Getting Better After Traumatic Brain Injury or Concussion (PDF)
  Use this brochure to learn how to continue living with a traumatic brain injury; and look over the checklist of symptoms that may help your doctor in diagnosing a concussion or traumatic brain injury. Spanish, Hmong, Russian, Somali, Vietnamese.
• Home Safety Checklist for Infants and Young Children (PDF)
  This home safety checklist is used to check the safety of infants and young children in your home, provided by the Family Home Visiting Unit.
• Home Safety Checklist: For Older Adults (PDF)
  Utilizes a checklist to point out some hazards in a home that could cause injuries and is specifically geared for homes with an older adult.
• Imagine Our Lives without Sexual Violence or Exploitation: Brochure (PDF)
  Brochure: Imagine Our Lives without Sexual Violence
• Injury-Related Mortality in Minnesota 1990 to 1999
  Reviews ten years of death certificate data involving injury-related mortality. Fact sheet (PDF)
• Intimate Partner Violence Report 2019 (PDF)
• Intimate Partner Violence Data Brief: 1998-2003 (PDF)
  Provides more detailed and current information on hospital-treated intimate partner violence compared to an earlier data brief (Intimate Partner Violence Data Brief: 1998 to 2001 (PDF), which is still available for archival reasons only and not intended to be used in place of this more current data brief).
• Leading Causes Non Fatal Hospital Injury 2000-2009 (PDF)
• Leading Causes of Death 1999 - 2008 (PDF)
• Leading Causes of Death 2000-2009 (PDF)
• Leading Causes of Injury Death 1999 - 2008 (PDF)
• Leading Causes of Injury Death 2000-2009 (PDF)
• Leading Causes of Non Fatal ED Injury 2000-2009 (PDF)
• Legislative Report for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Grant Program (PDF)
• MDH Sexual Violence Prevention Legislative Report 2015 (PDF)
• MDH Sexual Violence Prevention Legislative Report 2015 - Promotional Piece (PDF)
• Mental Health in Minnesota Data Brief 2016 (PDF)
  This data brief analyzes data from death certificates, hospital discharge data, and survey data to examine the trends in mental health and self-directed violence, mortality and morbidity by age group, race/ethnicity and gender.
• Minnesota Syringe Service Programs: Fall 2021 Evaluation & Impact Summary (PDF)
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Data Brief (PDF)
  Statewide and county trends in neonatal abstinence syndrome, 2016-2022
• Nonfatal Hospitalized Traumatic Brain Injury, Minnesota 1998-2003 (PDF)
• Opiate Antagonist Protocol 2016 - Minnesota Board of Pharmacy (PDF)
• Overdose Fatality Review Implementation Guide (PDF)
• Pedestrian Fatalities and Injuries in Minnesota - Data Brief 2016 (PDF)
• Preventing Injury and Violence in Minnesota (PDF)
• Preventing Teen Dating Violence State Plan  (PDF)
  This plan presents data and facts that describe the problem of teen dating violence and provides policy recommendations for prevention.
• Preventing Unintentional Injury in Minnesota: A Working Plan for 2020 (PDF)
• Preventing Unintentional Injury in Minnesota: Chartbook (PDF)
• Promoting Better Health for Minnesotans With Disabilities: Ending Exclusion (PDF)
  Promoting Better Health for Minnesotans With Disabilities: Ending Exclusion (Word)
  Minnesota's state plan, funded by CDC, to promote health and prevent secondary conditions. It was coordinated by MDH with participation by 20 agencies and organizations that serve or advocate for people with disabilities. Chapters focus on access to health care, mental health, abuse prevention, and employment, as well as infrastructure changes needed to accomplish the strategies.
• Rape on Minnesota College Campuses: Comparing Reported Rape with Synthetic Estimated Data (PDF)
• Self-reported Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Data Brief (PDF)
  Summarizes intimate partner and sexual violence victimization from three different Minnesota surveys and one national survey.
• Sexual Violence Data Brief (PDF)
  Hospital-treated Sexual Violence in Minnesota 2010 to 2014
• Sexual Violence Data Brief: 1999 to 2001 (PDF)
  Details the number of Minnesotans who received hospital care because of injuries sustained from sexual violence; also includes analysis of sexual violence-related questions from the 18 to 21 Year-old Survey, Minnesota Student Survey, and Minnesota Crime Survey.
• Students Reporting Sexual Violence Victimization on the Minnesota Student Survey, 1992-2016 (PDF)
• Substance Abuse Data Brief 2016 (PDF)
  This data brief analyzes death certificate data, hospital discharge data, prescription opioid sales, and survey data to examine the trends in drug use, mortality, and morbidity.
• Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in Minnesota (PDF)
  This data brief focuses on SUID cases identified in Minnesota, using vital records and the case registry, from 2010 through 2016.
• Suicide Prevention State Plan
• Suicide Prevention: Legislative Report 2018 (PDF)
• Suicide among Korean Adoptees in Minnesota (PDF)
  Summarizes the findings and recommendations of a public health investigation into suicide among Korean Adoptees in Minnesota.
• Suicide and Nonfatal, Self-Inflicted Harm - Beltrami County, 1990-2005 (PDF)
  Suicide and Nonfatal, Self-Inflicted Harm - Beltrami County, 1990-2005 (Word)
  Preliminary epidemiologic investigation into suicide and nonfatal, self-inflicted harm injuries occurring in Beltrami county for years 1990-2005.
• Suicide in Minnesota: 2011 Data Brief (PDF)
  This brief highlights suicide data collected from death certificates in 2011 and analyzes trends over the last decade.
• Suicide, County Specific Rates, 1990-2005 (PDF)
  County specific rates regarding suicide for years 1990-2005.
• TBI Mortality and Nonfatal Hospitalization Data Analysis Report, Minnesota 2005 (PDF)
  Describes the incidence and leading causes of both TBI mortality and nonfatal hospitalized TBI by age and gender and incorporates previous years' data for overall trends.
• TBI Mortality and Nonfatal Hospitalization Data Analysis Report, Minnesota 2006 (PDF)
  Describes the incidence and leading causes of both TBI mortality and nonfatal hospitalized TBI by age and gender and incorporates previous years' data for overall trends.
• TBI Mortality and Nonfatal Hospitalization Data Analysis Report, Minnesota 2007 (PDF)
  Describes the incidence and leading causes of both TBI mortality and nonfatal hospitalized TBI by age and gender and incorporates previous years' data for overall trends.
• TBI Mortality and Nonfatal Hospitalization Data Analysis Report, Minnesota 2008 (PDF)
  Describes the incidence and leading causes of both TBI mortality and nonfatal hospitalized TBI by age and gender and incorporates previous years' data for overall trends.
• TBI Mortality and Nonfatal Hospitalization Data Analysis Report, Minnesota 2009  (PDF)
  Describes the incidence and leading causes of both TBI mortality and nonfatal hospitalized TBI by age and gender and incorporates previous years' data for overall trends.
• TBI Special Emphasis Report 2011 update, Oct. 2013 (PDF)
  Impact and magnitude, and causes of TBI. Highlights TBI prevention strategies.
• TBI Special Emphasis Report 2012 (PDF)
• The Promise of Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence: 5 Year Plan (PDF)
  The Promise of Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence: 5 Year Plan (Word)
  The MDH Sexual Violence Prevention Program, working with many agencies and organizations, developed this plan to prevent sexual violence in Minnesota. The plan applies a public health model and outlines six goals for action at many levels of society.
• The Promise of Primary Prevention: Executive Summary (PDF)
  The Executive Summary summarizes the plan's six goals including the strategies to achieve the goal.
• Window Safety Report - Final Report to the Minnesota Legislature September 2011 (PDF)
  The report details actions accomplished through the window safety education program by the MDH. The report also provides the most current window fall injury data.