Trend of Death by Injury in Death Cause Surveillance Areas in Sichuan

Objective To find out the trend of death by injury in death cause surveillance areas in Sichuan from 1989 to 2008.Methods The analysis on the trend of death by injury and its constituent were conducted by using death surveillance data in Sichuan.Results During 1989-2008,injury was the fourth leading cause of death in the death cause surveillance areas.The annual proportion of injury to the total death causes ranged from 6.14% to 10.01%.The overall standardized mortality decreased from 63.28/ 100 000 in 1989 to 43.84/100 000 in 2008 with a annual decrease of 1.91%,the standardized mortality for male(68.74/100 000) was higher than that for female(40.43/100 000),and the standardized mortality in rural areas(65.36/100 000) was higher than that in urban areas(51.29/100 000).The crude mortality and standardized mortality for male and female,in rural areas and in urban areas all decreased year by year(P0.01).The first 6 injuries were suicide,traffic accident,drowing,unintentional falling down,poisoning,other unintentional accident and harmful effect.Transportation accident was increasing with a rate of 13.59%.Conclusion The death caused by injury was decreasing in the death cause surveillance areas in Sichuan,which was significant in females and in urban population.Most injury death were caused by suicide,traffic accident,transportation accident,drowing,unintentional fall down and poisoning.