Mi-FINDS
Michigan Firearm Injury Near real-time Data System
System Overview
A key barrier to addressing firearm injury in the United States is the lack of timely surveillance data. The University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention created a web-based Statewide System for Firearm Injury Surveillance to help guide public health response efforts in the state of Michigan. Near real-time data about firearm incidents can help inform data-driven public health and public safety response efforts by identifying foci for place-based interventions based on current spatiotemporal trends, and providing a timely basis for evaluating ongoing activities. This information is critical for making resource allocation decisions to mobilize resources such as facilitating access to services for those living in areas with violence spikes or identifying areas to deploy suicide prevention resources.
The public-facing surveillance system provides county- and state-level firearm fatality summaries. A restricted level of access is granted to authorized public health and public safety practitioners across Michigan. Registered users can utilize an interactive dashboard which maps firearm incidents in near real-time (i.e. daily) and provides demographic briefs.
Request Statewide AccessUsers can select a timeframe to tailor visualizations and view spatial and temporal trends in firearm injuries or generate printable reports. Data summaries can be customized by decedent demographic (e.g. age range; gender), manner of death (e.g. homicide; suicide) with an option to overlay place-based data (e.g. census)
Users can select a time frame to tailor visualizations and view spatial and temporal trends in firearm injuries or generate printable reports. Data summaries can be customized by decedent demographic (e.g. age range; gender), manner of death (e.g. homicide; suicide) with an option to overlay place-based data (e.g. census)
More on how it works
Our Goals
Create a scalable firearm injury and fatality surveillance system for the state of Michigan
Geocode firearm injury and fatalities in near real-time (i.e. daily)
Accessible to public health and public safety stakeholders and practitioners
Develop a system with stakeholder input to maximize utility
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Request an authorized user account now to access data at the city or county level, demographic summaries, and census tract overlays.
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