Analysis on the distribution of injury mortality and the burden of disease in urban and rural residents of Guangxi Province in 2011

Objective To analyze the epidemiological characteristics and burden of injury death in urban and rural area in Guangxi province in 2011 and to provide a scientific basis for preventing and controlling injury.Methods The surveillance data of death of inhabitants were analyzed by indicators such as mortality,standardized mortality,years of potential life,working years of potential life lost(WYPLL) and valued years of potential life lost(WYPLL).Results The mortality of injury was 56.39 per 100 000,and standardized mortality was 58.34 per 100 000.Injury mortality of rural residents was 1.77 times higher than that of the urban residents.The first five leading causes of injury death were traffic accidents,followed by falls,drowning,suicide and poisoning.In addition to poisoning,various causes of injury death was higher in rural than in urban district.Drowning mortality was significantly higher in rural areas(P 0.05),drowning mortality of rural residents was 2.74(8.20 /2.99) times of that among the urban residents.The first three leading causes of YPLL,WYPLL and VYPLL in rural were traffic accident,drowning and suicide.The first three leading causes of YPLL and WYPLL in urban were traffic accidents,drowning and poisoning.The first three leading causes of WYPLL in urban were traffic accident,poisoning and suicide.Conclusions Injury is one of the leading causes of death in urban and rural regions of Guangxi Province.Injury death and burden of disease were different between urban and rural.It is necessary for the government to take corresponding measures to prevent and control injury in accordance with the actual situation of the locals.