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Epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality in Guangdong Province, China, 2015

BACKGROUND: As the fourth leading cause of death, injury is an important public health concern in Guangdong Province, China. The epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality is changing along with the social development. This study described the epidemiological characteristics of injury morta...

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Autores principales: Meng, Ruilin, Xu, Xiaojun, Xu, Yanjun, Luo, Chao, Xu, Haofeng, Wang, Ye, Song, Xiuling, Xia, Liang, Xiao, Ni, Zhou, Shaoen, Lin, Lifeng
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6359779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30709390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6437-6
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author Meng, Ruilin
Xu, Xiaojun
Xu, Yanjun
Luo, Chao
Xu, Haofeng
Wang, Ye
Song, Xiuling
Xia, Liang
Xiao, Ni
Zhou, Shaoen
Lin, Lifeng
author_facet Meng, Ruilin
Xu, Xiaojun
Xu, Yanjun
Luo, Chao
Xu, Haofeng
Wang, Ye
Song, Xiuling
Xia, Liang
Xiao, Ni
Zhou, Shaoen
Lin, Lifeng
author_sort Meng, Ruilin
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description BACKGROUND: As the fourth leading cause of death, injury is an important public health concern in Guangdong Province, China. The epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality is changing along with the social development. This study described the epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality in Guangdong Province by analyzing the death surveillance data in a few areas in Guangdong Province in 2015. METHODS: Using the mortality data from the Disease Surveillance Points (DSP) system, injury deaths were classified according to the International Classification of Disease-10th Revision (ICD-10). The data were stratified by areas (urban/rural), gender, age groups, injury types, and then overall and type-specific injury mortality rates were estimated for the whole Guangdong Province, China. RESULTS: We estimated that about 38,200 individuals died from injury in Guangdong Province in 2015, producing a mortality rate of 43.11/100,000. The overall age-standardized injury mortality in men was higher in rural areas compared with urban areas (41.29/100,000 versus 24.89/100,000). In terms of injury intent, unintentional injuries were the commonnest injury type, which accounted for 83.93% of the overall injury deaths, however, the deaths caused by suicide should not be ignored, which occupied 12.67% of the total injury deaths. In terms of injury cause type, falls, road-traffic accidents, suicide, drowning, and accidental poisoning were the top five leading types of injury deaths. CONCLUSIONS: In Guangdong Province, injury is an important cause of death. Road-traffic accidents, falls, suicide, drowning, and accidental poisoning should be the priorities of intervention. Moreover, in rural areas, the men were the most targeted subpopulation of the prevention activities.
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spelling pubmed-63597792019-02-07 Epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality in Guangdong Province, China, 2015 Meng, Ruilin Xu, Xiaojun Xu, Yanjun Luo, Chao Xu, Haofeng Wang, Ye Song, Xiuling Xia, Liang Xiao, Ni Zhou, Shaoen Lin, Lifeng BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: As the fourth leading cause of death, injury is an important public health concern in Guangdong Province, China. The epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality is changing along with the social development. This study described the epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality in Guangdong Province by analyzing the death surveillance data in a few areas in Guangdong Province in 2015. METHODS: Using the mortality data from the Disease Surveillance Points (DSP) system, injury deaths were classified according to the International Classification of Disease-10th Revision (ICD-10). The data were stratified by areas (urban/rural), gender, age groups, injury types, and then overall and type-specific injury mortality rates were estimated for the whole Guangdong Province, China. RESULTS: We estimated that about 38,200 individuals died from injury in Guangdong Province in 2015, producing a mortality rate of 43.11/100,000. The overall age-standardized injury mortality in men was higher in rural areas compared with urban areas (41.29/100,000 versus 24.89/100,000). In terms of injury intent, unintentional injuries were the commonnest injury type, which accounted for 83.93% of the overall injury deaths, however, the deaths caused by suicide should not be ignored, which occupied 12.67% of the total injury deaths. In terms of injury cause type, falls, road-traffic accidents, suicide, drowning, and accidental poisoning were the top five leading types of injury deaths. CONCLUSIONS: In Guangdong Province, injury is an important cause of death. Road-traffic accidents, falls, suicide, drowning, and accidental poisoning should be the priorities of intervention. Moreover, in rural areas, the men were the most targeted subpopulation of the prevention activities. BioMed Central 2019-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6359779/ /pubmed/30709390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6437-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Luo, Chao
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Wang, Ye
Song, Xiuling
Xia, Liang
Xiao, Ni
Zhou, Shaoen
Lin, Lifeng
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title_full Epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality in Guangdong Province, China, 2015
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title_short Epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality in Guangdong Province, China, 2015
title_sort epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality in guangdong province, china, 2015
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6359779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30709390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6437-6
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