State Injury Prevention Program

Continue the operation of the State Injury Prevention Program (SIPP) located within the Kentucky Injury . Prevention and Research Center, University of Kentucky School of Public Health. Objectives: 1) Maintain a state-of -the-art, population based, public health injury surveillance system that provides injury data for state and local agency needs; 2) Operate a community-based injury prevention program that focuses on the major causes of unintentional injury among Kentuckians and the regions of the Commonwealth where the injury problems are most prevalent; and 3) Continue the development of a violence prevention program that focuses on preventing intimate partner and fa