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| The evolution of unintentional injury mortality among elderly in Europe | | Author(s) | Eleni Th Petriodou, Stavroula K Dikalioti, Nick Dessypris |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 20, no 2, March 2008 |
| Pages | pp 159-182 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Death rate [statistics] ; Injuries ; Falls ; Road accidents ; Fire ; Longitudinal surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Cause-specific unintentional injury mortality trends among people aged 65+ in the European Union (EU) were compared over a 10-year period (1993-2002). Overall and cause-specific data for 23 out of the 29 EU and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries with populations of 1 million or more were retrieved from the World Health Organization (WHO) and age-standardised mortality rates for the first and last 3 available years of the study period were calculated. Proportional mortality changes were estimated through linear regression. Circa 1993, country-specific rates varied widely (> fourfold), but this gap is closing and a statistically significant downward trend in overall mortality is noted circa 2002, in about half of the countries. Rates from falls were reduced by 4.3%, from motor vehicle traffic by 3.1%, and from smoke, fire and flames by 3.1%. A large proportion of EU countries enjoys steady declining trends by major unintentional injury mortality category. Success factors and barriers underlying these benchmarking patterns should be further explored to accelerate the process of injury reduction. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080411201 A |
| Classmark | S5: CU: OLF: OP: OLB: 3J: 74 |
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