Definition Unintentional Injury is defined as any unintentional damage to the body resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as oxygen. 1 Causes or mechanisms of injury vary regardless of manner or intent. Various measures used by many injury control programs can be computed from the death registration systems.
Information is recorded on each deceased's death certificate.
Injury morbidity data can be extracted from the Hospital Discharge Data Base, which, for the state of Utah is maintained by the Office of Health Data Analysis.