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Years of Potential Life Lost from Unintentional Injuries Among Persons Aged 0?19 Years ? United States, 2000?2009
Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of deaths among persons aged 0?19 years in the United States...Deaths attributed to unintentional injuries among persons aged 0?19 years number approximately 12,000 each year in the United States; another 9 million young persons are treated for nonfatal injuries in emergency departments. To estimate the burden of premature deaths attributed to unintentional injuries among persons aged 0?19 years, CDC calculated state-specific YPLL by sex, age, race, and injury mechanism based on data from the National Vital Statistics System multiple cause of death files for the period 2000?2009. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which found that an average of 890 years of potential life were lost each year because of unintentional injuries for every 100,000 persons aged 0?19 years. The burden of unintentional injuries was higher among males compared with females, among persons aged <1 year and those aged 15?19 years compared with the other 5-year age groups, among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) compared with those of any other race/ethnicity, and among those residing in two clusters of adjacent states (the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and the Mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota) compared with any other region...
CDC analyzed data from the National Vital Statistics System multiple cause of death files for the period 2000?2009, the most recent data available...
Unintentional childhood injuries accounted for 115,613 deaths during 2000?2009. Males contributed almost twice the number of YPLL as females, with an annual rate of 1,137 per 100,000, compared with 630 (Table 1). Persons aged 15?19 years contributed 51% of the total YPLL from unintentional injuries. The YPLL rate per 100,000 by 5-year age group ranged from 367 in persons aged 5?9 years to 1,768 in those aged 15?19 years, but the highest rate in any single-year age group was in persons aged <1 year with 1,977 YPLL per 100,000 each year, of which 71% were attributed to suffocation injuries.
YPLL rates differed by race/ethnicity. The rate was highest among AI/AN males at 1,790 per 100,000, followed by black males at 1,194, and white males at 1,147. Among females, AI/AN females had a YPLL rate nearly twice that of both white and black females and three times that of Asian/Pacific Islander females, who lost an average of 320 years of potential life per 100,000 each year.
Injuries attributed to motor vehicle traffic crashes contributed the bulk (55%) of all YPLL during the period analyzed. The YPLL per 100,000 for motor vehicle traffic?related injuries was 491, five times higher than that for suffocation, the second leading YPLL contributor at 95. Drowning was third, with a YPLL rate of 91 per 100,000. Motor vehicle traffic?related pedestrian injuries contributed more to YPLL (52 per 100,000) than injuries from fire or burns (45), poisoning (52), and falls (14).
Thirty states had YPLL rates greater than or equal to the national YPLL rate of 890 per 100,000 persons aged 0?19 years. The YPLL per 100,000 varied among the states, from 416 in Massachusetts to 1,770 in Mississippi. States with the highest YPLL rates were Mississippi (1,770), Alaska (1,592), South Dakota (1,573), and Wyoming (1,543). States with the lowest YPLL rates were Massachusetts (416), New Jersey (470), New York (484), and Connecticut (521)...
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Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of deaths among persons aged 0?19 years in the United States...Deaths attributed to unintentional injuries among persons aged 0?19 years number approximately 12,000 each year in the United States; another 9 million young persons are treated for nonfatal injuries in emergency departments. To estimate the burden of premature deaths attributed to unintentional injuries among persons aged 0?19 years, CDC calculated state-specific YPLL by sex, age, race, and injury mechanism based on data from the National Vital Statistics System multiple cause of death files for the period 2000?2009. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which found that an average of 890 years of potential life were lost each year because of unintentional injuries for every 100,000 persons aged 0?19 years. The burden of unintentional injuries was higher among males compared with females, among persons aged <1 year and those aged 15?19 years compared with the other 5-year age groups, among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) compared with those of any other race/ethnicity, and among those residing in two clusters of adjacent states (the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and the Mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota) compared with any other region...
CDC analyzed data from the National Vital Statistics System multiple cause of death files for the period 2000?2009, the most recent data available...
Unintentional childhood injuries accounted for 115,613 deaths during 2000?2009. Males contributed almost twice the number of YPLL as females, with an annual rate of 1,137 per 100,000, compared with 630 (Table 1). Persons aged 15?19 years contributed 51% of the total YPLL from unintentional injuries. The YPLL rate per 100,000 by 5-year age group ranged from 367 in persons aged 5?9 years to 1,768 in those aged 15?19 years, but the highest rate in any single-year age group was in persons aged <1 year with 1,977 YPLL per 100,000 each year, of which 71% were attributed to suffocation injuries.
YPLL rates differed by race/ethnicity. The rate was highest among AI/AN males at 1,790 per 100,000, followed by black males at 1,194, and white males at 1,147. Among females, AI/AN females had a YPLL rate nearly twice that of both white and black females and three times that of Asian/Pacific Islander females, who lost an average of 320 years of potential life per 100,000 each year.
Injuries attributed to motor vehicle traffic crashes contributed the bulk (55%) of all YPLL during the period analyzed. The YPLL per 100,000 for motor vehicle traffic?related injuries was 491, five times higher than that for suffocation, the second leading YPLL contributor at 95. Drowning was third, with a YPLL rate of 91 per 100,000. Motor vehicle traffic?related pedestrian injuries contributed more to YPLL (52 per 100,000) than injuries from fire or burns (45), poisoning (52), and falls (14).
Thirty states had YPLL rates greater than or equal to the national YPLL rate of 890 per 100,000 persons aged 0?19 years. The YPLL per 100,000 varied among the states, from 416 in Massachusetts to 1,770 in Mississippi. States with the highest YPLL rates were Mississippi (1,770), Alaska (1,592), South Dakota (1,573), and Wyoming (1,543). States with the lowest YPLL rates were Massachusetts (416), New Jersey (470), New York (484), and Connecticut (521)...
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