篇名 | Long-term Trends in Child and Youth Injury Mortality in Taiwan, 1989-2007 |
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卷期 | 35:4 |
作者 | Lu,Yun-Lin 、 Chien,Wu-Chien 、 Lin,Fu-Huang 、 Chiu,Yu-Lung 、 Pai,Lu 、 Chang,Yu-Tien 、 Daniel S. Villarreal 、 Pan,Chih-Hong 、 Chang,Shuenn-Chin 、 Lin,Ke-Hsin 、 Lin,Chiao-Huang 、 Chen,Chein-Ting 、 Lin,Yu-Ching |
頁次 | 147-156 |
關鍵字 | Children 、 gender 、 injury 、 mortality 、 trends 、 MEDLINE 、 Scopus |
出刊日期 | 201508 |
DOI | 10.4103/1011-4564.163822 |
Background: Injuries are the leading causes of death and contribute greatly to morbidity in children. Our study examined injuries’ age and gender-specific variations over time among children 0-19, from 1989 to 2007. Materials and Methods: Numbers of deaths caused by injury are drawn from Taiwan’s official Vital Statistics System. Mortality was age-adjusted to the US 2000 standard population. Temporal trends were analyzed by linear regression. Results: Both genders’ annual mortality rates and proportional mortality ratios of unintentional injuries declined significantly during 1989-2007. Conversely, an increasing trend of intentional deaths occurred. In general, during 1992-2007, increasing the rates of suicide deaths in ages 10-19 and of homicide deaths in ages 0-9 occurred. Boys had more suicide deaths than did girls. Conclusions: Unlike unintentional injuries, intentional injuries increased over the 1989-2007 period. Deaths in the subgroups of ages 0-19 and categorized by genders were caused by varying injuries.