The urban areas have rates that are half those in some of the more rural areas. We don't know why, but injury mortality varies a lot by geography. That's the way the experts define the problem. There's a whole other way to define the problem. I want to hear you tell me what your problems are.
People know what their problems are.
They don't need me to tell them what their problems are. I consider one of my greatest obligations is to listen and recognize how a community sees its own problems. With any luck, a planning process evolves in which the community's decisions about its problems and our expert decisions about the problems are brought together so that a plan evolves about what to do and who's going to do it. We engaged in such a planning process with support from the CDC and developed the California Strategic Plan for Injury Prevention Control. Each made a tremendous contribution.