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Background: Injuries are an increasingly recognized global, preventable public health problem and are an important cause of mortality and morbidity in adult population. The major causes of injury related deaths may be intentional and unintentional. The major unintentional or “accidental” causes are road traffic accidents (RTAs), falls and drowning whereas the leading intentional causes are suicide and homicide. A robust Surveillance System for Injury Mortality is almost non-existent in our country due to which the data for the same is not available and haphazard. Keeping these factors in mind, the following study was under taken to identify the various epidemiological factors related to fatal injury cases.Methods: A record based retrospective study was conducted in the Department of Community Medicine, VSSIMAR, Burla, Odisha. The data were collected from the autopsy reports preserved at the Dept of FM & T, VSSIMSAR. Variables like age, sex, number of injury cause of death, place of death etc. were collected. Data were entered in Microsoft Excel and analysed using proportions and percentages.Results: The age group 25-44 years recorded the maximum number of deaths (37.49%). Males suffered the highest casualty accounting for 61.85% of deaths. Unintentional fatal injuries constituted 63.58% of deaths. The most number of fatal injuries resulting in deaths were RTAs (36.41%).Conclusions: The age group 25-44 years recorded maximum deaths. Males were the major death victims. RTAs constituted maximum of deaths among unintentional fatal injuries. Homicidal injuries constituted maximum of deaths due to intentional fatal injuries.
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We retrospectively studied the death cases brought for medico-legal post-mortem examination at mortuary, Government Medical College, Aurangabad in last one year i.e. 2010. All the cases from these areas (Police station MIDC Waluj, MIDC Cidco, MIDC Chikhalthana, and MIDC Paithan, etc.) were included in the study and the results are analyzed. Deaths from industrial areas accounted for 6.85% of total autopsies. It is observed that the most common cause of death in industrial area is road traffic accident probably due to higher frequency of transportation. Males outnumbered the females and they suffered injuries most in their fourth decade of life. Maximum incidences occurred in the month of October, that too on Friday between times 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Maximum cases were accidental in manner and brought dead to Government Medical College, Aurangabad. The most common cause of death was vehicular accidents involving head. This is the first time such a study has been carried out locally. The proportion of accidental deaths in industrial areas relative to that of non industrial area may be attributed to the poor enforcement of safety measures in these areas.
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Accidents, Traffic/epidemiology , Accidents, Traffic/mortality , Accidents, Traffic/statistics & numerical data , Age Groups , Autopsy , Death/etiology , Fatal Outcome , Female , Humans , India/epidemiology , Industry , MaleABSTRACT
Objetivo: caracterizar os acidentes de trabalho fatais e analisar a qualidade das informações de seus registros. Método: estudo ecológico com análise descritiva dos óbitos por acidentes de trabalho no Brasil, em Minas Gerais e no município de Uberaba, no período de 1997 a 2006. Utilizou-se como fonte de dados as informações do Sistema de informações sobre Mortalidade (SIM), do Ministério da Saúde, e o Sistema Único de Benefícios (SUB), do Minis tério da Previdência e Assistência Social. Resultados: as causas mais comuns de acidentes de trabalho fatais estão relacionadas com os acidentes de trajeto e atingem principalmente homens da faixa etária entre 25 e 44 anos. Constatou-seum elevado percentual de informação ignorada no campo direcionado à identificação da relação do óbito com o acidente de trabalho, alcançando, no período, média de 82,9% em nível nacional, de 84,5% no estadual e de 79,6% no municipal.Quanto à qualidade das informações do SIM, segundo os critérios propostos pela Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe, é considerada muito ruim para informar sobre acidentes de trabalho, sendo um fator limitante para o planejamento de ações no campo da saúde do trabalhador a partir desta fonte de dados. Conclusão: são necessárias, portanto, formas mais eficazes de registro das informações relacionadas aos acidentes de trabalho fatais.
Objective: The present study purpose is to characterize fatal occupationalaccidents and analyze the quality of recorded information. Method: Ecologicalstudy, with descriptive analysis of deaths due to occupational accidents in thecity of Uberaba, the State of Minas Gerais, and Brazil, from 1997 to 2006. Thestudy used data from the Information System on Mortality (SIM) of the Ministryof Health and from Workers? Benefit and Compensation System (SUB) from theMinistry of Social Security and Assistance. Results: The most common causesof work-related fatalities are commuting accidents and mainly involve males,aged between 25-44 years. The results showed that there is a high percentage ofmissing information in the records aimed at identifying the relationship betweendeath and work accidents, reaching, during the period, the average of 82.9% inthe national, 84.5% in the state and 79.6% in the municipal records. Accordingto the criteria proposed by the Economic Commission for Latin America andCaribbean, the quality of information from the SIM is very poor, which resultsto be a limitation for action planning in the occupational health based insuch data. Conclusion: For this reason, it is necessary to adopt more effectiveways of recording information related to occupational fatal accidents.
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Accidents, Occupational/mortality , Cause of Death , Statistics as Topic/methods , Occupational Accidents Registry , Occupational HealthABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: The occupational accident rate was officially reported to be 0.77 per 100 workers in 2001 and 0.70 in 2009. The stagnant decrease in accident rate raises a question about the effectiveness of prevention activity because there have been active prevention efforts in the past 10 years. It is also necessary to know the exact status of occupational injuries to direct a prevention strategy. METHODS: The author re-analyzed occupational injury statistics to find the reason for stagnant decreases in occupational injuries. Compensated occupational injuries cases were used to calculate fatal and non-fatal injury rates. Injuries from commuting accidents and sports activities were excluded as well as occupational diseases. The number of workers was adjusted to that of full time equivalent employees. RESULTS: The fatal injury rate excluding injuries associated with commuting accidents, sports activities, and occupational diseases decreased from 12.59 in 2001 to 8.20 in 2009. In 2007, 67.5% of accidents that involved being caught in objects, which are mostly caused by machines and equipment, occurred in the manufacturing industry; this type of incident has decreased since 2001. The fatal and non-fatal injury rates in the manufacturing industry have continuously decreased while the rates in the service industry have not changed from 2001 to 2009. Non-fatal injuries might not be reported in many cases. The number of insured workers was underestimated as long working hours were not adjusted for in the reporting system. CONCLUSION: The occupational fatal injury rate has decreased and the non-fatal injury rate might have decreased during the last 10 years, although the statistics show stagnancy. The decrease of the injury rate was countervailed by various factors. Hence, the current accident rate does not reflect the actual situation of accidents in Korea. Korea needs to develop an improved system to more accurately calculate occupational fatal and non-fatal injury rates.