Reduce injuries, disabilities, and deaths due to unintentional injuries and violence. Reduce deaths caused by poisonings. Better than the best. Data have not been analyzed. Data are not collected.
Data are statistically unreliable.
Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population. New data for population groups will be added when available. Children are at significantly greater risk from poisoning death and exposure than adults because children are more likely to ingest potentially harmful chemicals. Children aged 4 years and under accounted for nearly half of these deaths. In 1996, more than 1.1 million unintentional poisonings among children aged 5 years and under were reported to U.S. poison control centers.