Characteristics of injury-induced death and potential years of life lost among residents in Changsha in 2014-2021 / 公共卫生与预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the injury death and its potential years of life lost among residents in Changsha from 2014 to 2021. Methods Data was obtained from the routine death cause monitoring records, and descriptive analysis was conducted using SPSS 21.0 to analyze the characteristics of injury death and life loss. Joinpoint software was applied to analyze and compare the mortality rates of injury death causes in different years. Results From 2014 to 2021, a total of 23862 deaths from injuries were reported in residents in Changsha, with an average annual crude mortality rate of 37.23/105 and an average standardized mortality rate of 33.82/105. The age standardized rate in the male was higher than that in the female (χ2＝2496.29，P=0.000). The standardized mortality rate of injury decreased year by year (APC=-4.013%，t=-3.052，P=0.022). The top five causes of death from injurie were traffic accident, accidental fall, drowning, suicide, and accidental poisoning. The leading causes of injury death were drowning in the age group of 0 to 14 years old, traffic accident in the group of 15 to 64 years old, and accidental fall in the group of 65 years old and above. From 2014 to 2021, the cumulative potential years of life lost (PYLL) of residents in Changsha was 398280.00 person years, the average years of life lost (AYLL) was 23.82 years per person, and the potential years of life lost rate (PYLLR) was 6.68‰. The top 5 types of injuries for PYLL were traffic accident, drowning, accidental fall, suicide, and accidental poisoning. Conclusion Injury is one of the important public health problems affecting the health of the residents in Changsha, and corresponding intervention measures should be taken according to the injury types of different populations.