Title: Pattern of injury deaths among residents in Guangdong Province,2004—2005
Abstract: Objective To explore the pattern of injury deaths in Guangdong Province in 2004—2005.Methods Twelve counties and cities were selected as survey points by stratified randomized cluster sampling.All the domicile injury deaths of survey points in 2004—2005 were enrolled as the study objects.Data on mortality level and causes of injuries,together with years of potential life lost(YPLL) of injuries and proportion of YPLL of total death,were calculated.Results A total of 7 721 deaths of injury were investigated in 2004—2005,including 4 950 males,2 771 females,1 795 urban residents and 5 926 rural residents.The average injury death rate was 50.8 /100 000(standardized rate 47.8/100 000).Injury death rates were 55.2/100 000(standardized rate 52.7/100 000) in rural area and 40.0/100 000(standardized rate 37.9/100 000) in urban area;injury death rate for male(64.0/100 000,standardized rate 61.6/100 000) was higher than that for female(37.0/100 000,standardized rate 33.5/100 000)(P0.01).Injury was the fourth leading cause of deaths in Guangdong,accounting for 7.7%(7 721/99 919) of all deaths.The largest proportion of all causes of deaths was fatal injury in 5-39 age group persons for both male and female in urban and rural areas,and injury has become the first leading cause of deaths in this age group.The proportion of intentional injury was 20.0%(1 544/7 721) while unintentional injury composed of 78.6%(6 072/7 721)of all cases;the cause ranking of injury deaths were traffic injury(21.3 /100 000),suicide(8.8 /100 000),accidental fall(6.5 /100 000),drowning(5.6 /100 000),and poisoning(2.6 /100 000);the largest proportions of fatal injury in 0-14 and 15-59 age groups were drowning and traffic injury,which accounted for 54.7%(350/640) and 51.3%(2 308/4 506) respectively;traffic injury,fall and suicide were the major causes of fatal injury in ≥60 age group,accounting for 31.0%(796/2 576),28.7%(746/2 576),and 21.2%(545/2 576),respectively.YPLL in injury was 1 160 000 person years,accounting for 35.6% of all causes of deaths.Life expectancy would increase 1.28 years of age when removing the cause of fatal injury.Conclusion Traffic accident was the primary cause of injury deaths in Guangdong.The disease burden of injury was heavy and the death of injury caused great economic losses.It is necessary and profound to strengthen the prevention and control of injury in Guangdong.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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