Status of injury death and potential losses analysis in Shaanxi Province,2015-2017 / 中华疾病控制杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the injury death status and potential loss due to injury death in monitoring area in shaanxi province from 2015 to 2017, so as to provide a scientific basis for preventing and controlling injury. Methods Descriptive epidemiological method was used to analyze the cause of injury death data. Health economics was used to calculate the potential losses caused by injury death,calculate mortality,standardized death rate,constituent ratio,years of potential life lost(PYLL),average number of years lost(AYLL),working years of potential life lost(WPYLL),average working years of potential life lost(AWPYLL),potential economic lost(PEL). Results The average mortality of injury was 55.76 per 100 000(standardized rate was 45.83 per 100 000) in Shaanxi province from 2015 to 2017.The average injury mortality of male was higher than female,and countryside was higher than city.The leading causes of injury death were traffic accidents,falls,suicide,poisoning. Drowning and homicide were the main types of AYLL,male was higher than female and countryside was high than city.PYLL,WPYLL and PEL in traffic accident were 88 218 person-years,56 413 person-years and 2.728 billions of Yuan,and all of them were higher in male than female, and higher in city than countryside. PYLL,WPYLL and PEL in suicide were 16 789 person-years,10 868 person-years and 0.526 billions of Yuan, higher in female than male, and higher in countryside than city. Conclusions Injury has become a serious public health problem endangering people’s life and health in Shaanxi province,and also the leading cause of death in loss of labor and potential economic loss.