Book
Publication Date
January 2020
Abstract
I was contracted by the local strategic planning firm Helix Solutions to design a Tribal Injury Atlas for New Mexico and Southwest Colorado. The report provides an overview of injury among American Indian and Alaska Native people living in New Mexico and Southwestern Colorado. Topics covered includedeaths and hospitalizations due to injury. Furthermore,it looks at both the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey and theNew Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey to describerisk behaviors within the American Indian/Alaska Native(AI/AN) youth populations of the two states. The reportalso draws upon aggregated New Mexico Behavioral RiskFactor Surveillance System data to present injury-relatedrisk behaviors in the adult AI/AN population in NewMexico. A special section on opioid misuse presents dataon drug overdoses due to opioid misuse as well as state-leveldata on opioid poisonings resulting in emergencydepartment visits.This report featured the typical charts and graphs one would expect from such a publication, but I created section divisions with beautiful commissioned photos of the southwest, its people, architecture, and customs. The publication became a thoughtful interpretation of the data.