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Selected U.S. National Research Findings
Below are selected national women's health research findings and facts related to injury. This information is selected
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Injury: Carbon Monoxide
Injury: Child and Adolescent Health
Injury: Deaths
Injury: Dog Bites
Injury: Falls
Injury: Health Care
Injury: Recreation
Injury: Self-Inflicted Injury
Injury: Statistics (General)- includes multiple topics, behavioral risks, trends, and/or summary statistics
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Injury: Carbon Monoxide |
• According to
2001-2003 data on emergency department visits from the National
Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Program and 2001-2002
death certificate data from the National Vital Statistics System,
during 2001-2003, an estimated 15,200 persons with confirmed or
possible non--fire-related CO exposure were treated annually in
hospital emergency departments.
• The nonfatal rate was similar for males and females; in contrast, the
death rate for males was 2.7 times that for females. The case fatality
rate (CFR) increased with age, from 0.6% for children aged <4 years to
5.5% for adults aged 55-64 years; also, the CFR for males was 2.3 times
that for females.
Source:
Unintentional
Non-Fire-Related Carbon Monoxide Exposures- United States, 2001 - 2003
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5402a2.htm
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Injury: Child and Adolescent Health |
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In 2003, 22 percent of male high school students rarely or never used a
seat belt compared with 15 percent of female high school students.
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The percent of high school students in grades 9–12 who rode with a
driver who had been drinking alcohol decreased from 40 percent to 30
percent between 1991 and 2003.
Source: Health, United States, 2005
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
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Injury: Deaths |
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In 2002,
161,269 resident deaths occurred in the United States as the result of
injuries.
Source: Deaths: Injuries, 2002
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_10.pdf
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• Death rates for all
[injury related] causes were higher among American Indian/Alaska Native males than
females aged 19 or over; however, the difference was smaller for fire-related deaths.
Source: Injury Mortality Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Youth -
United States, 1989-1998
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5230a2.htm
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Injury: Dog Bites |
• Approximately 154,625 (42.0%) dog bites
[treated in hospital emergency departments] occurred among children aged <14 years,
and the rate was significantly higher for boys (293.2 per 100,000 population) than for girls (216.7). For persons aged >15 years, the
difference between the rate for males (102.9) and females (88.0) was not statistically significant.
Source: Nonfatal Dog Bite-Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments -
United States, 2001
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5226a1.htm
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Injury: Falls |
• Among adults aged 65 years and over, the rate of injury due to falls was about twice as
high for women as for men.
Source: Summary Health Statistics for the U.S. Population: National Health Interview
Survey, 2001
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_217.pdf
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Injury: Health Care |
| • The percentage was higher for males requiring treatment for at least one injury (17.3%)
than for females (15.4%). • Among
persons aged <45 years, a greater percentage of males reported treatment for an injury; among persons aged >45 years, a greater
percentage of females reported treatment for an injury.
• Males had a higher percentage of injury-attributable medical expenditures than females
for all age groups, except persons aged 45-64 years.
• Injury-attributable medical expenditures were higher for males ($59.8 billion) than
females ($57.4 billion).
• The greatest injury-attributable medical expenditures ($23.3 billion) were for women
aged 45--64 years. Expenditures per capita for women were greater than for men in the same age group.
Source: Medical Expenditures Attributable to Injuries– United States, 2000
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5301a1.htm
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Injury: Recreation |
| • Among nonfatal
sports- and recreation-related injuries
[treated in hospital emergency departments] for females aged 10-19
years, basketball-related injuries ranked highest. • Exercise (e.g., weight lifting, aerobics, stretching, walking, jogging, and running) was the leading
injury-related activity for women [treated in hospital emergency
departments] aged >20 years and ranked among the top four types of injuries for men aged >20 years.
• The percentage of all unintentional injury-related emergency department visits that
were sports- and recreation-related was highest for persons aged 10-14 years (51.5% for boys, 38.0% for girls), and lowest for persons aged
>45 years (6.4% for men, 3.1% for women). Rates were highest among persons aged 10-14 years (75.4 for boys, 36.3 for girls), and lowest
among persons aged 0-4 years (11.1 for boys, 6.8 for girls) and persons aged >45 years (4.3 for men, 2.2 for women).
Source: Nonfatal Sports- and Recreation-Related Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments
- United States, July 2000-June 2001
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5133a2.htm
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Injury: Self-Inflicted Injury |
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Between 1993 and 2003 the percent of high school students who reported
attempting suicide (8–9 percent) and whose suicide attempts required
medical attention (just under 3 percent) remained fairly constant. Girls
were more likely than boys to consider or attempt suicide. However, in
2002 adolescent boys (15–19 years of age) were five times as likely to
die from suicide as were adolescent girls, in part reflecting their
choice of more lethal methods, such as firearms.
Source: Health, United States, 2005
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
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| • Overall,
self-inflicted injury rates were highest
[in hospital emergency departments] among adolescents and young adults,
particularly females. • During 2000,
an estimated 264,108 persons were treated in emergency departments for nonfatal self-inflicted injuries (rate: 95.9 per 100,000 population); the rate for
females (107.7) was higher than that for males (83.6).
• The causes of
self-inflicted injuries were similar for males and females [in hospital
emergency departments], although the proportion attributed to poisoning
was higher for females (72%) than for males (55%).
• By age,
[self-inflicted injury] rates were highest among adolescents aged 15-19 years and young adults aged
20-24 years (259.0 and 236.6, respectively), with the highest rate occurring among females aged 15-19 years (322.7).
• By race/ethnicity,
[self-inflicted injury] rates were highest among white, non-Hispanic
males (71.8) and females (93.9).
Source: Nonfatal Self-Inflicted Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments-
United States, 2000
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5120a3.htm
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• Approximately 150,000 persons were treated in
emergency departments for poisoning-related suicide
attempts and the rate of intentionally self-inflicted, nonfatal poisonings for females was 1.6 times that for males.
Source: Estimates of Nonfatal Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments-U.S.,
2000
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Injury:
Statistics (General)- includes multiple topics,
behavioral risks, trends, and/or summary statistics |
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Each
day, 1,301 children suffer traumatic brain injuries, 1,294 teens attempt
suicide and require medical attention to prevent death, and 801 older
adults sustain hip fractures, but they represent only a small portion of
the people who will be injured each year in the United States.
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The lifetime cost of injuries occurring in a single year in the United
States totals an estimated $406 billion in medical expenses and
productivity losses (including lost wages, fringe benefits, and ability
to perform normal household responsibilities. Nearly $80.2 billion is
attributed to medical expenses, while $326 billion is estimated for
lifetime productivity losses for the almost 50 million injuries that
required medical treatment in 2000. These costs begin to accumulate when
the injuries occur and are spread over each injured person’s expected
lifetime.
Source:
The Incidence
and Economic Burden of Injury in the United States
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/Economic_Burden_of_Injury.htm
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In 2003, the rate of
injury and poisoning episodes occurring inside the home were higher for
females than for males, whereas the rate of injury and poisoning
episodes occurring at recreation areas was higher for males than for
females.
Source: Summary
Health Statistics for the U.S. Population: National Health Interview
Survey, 2003
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_224.pdf
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| • Overall, fatal and nonfatal injury rates were higher for males than females and
disproportionately affected younger and older persons. • For fatal injuries, 101,537
(64.6%) were unintentional, and 51,326 (32.7%) were violence-related, including homicides, legal intervention, and suicide.
• For nonfatal injuries, 27,551,362 (92.7%) were unintentional, and 2,155,912 (7.3%) were
violence-related, including assaults, legal intervention, and self-harm.
• Overall, the leading cause of fatal injury was unintentional motor-vehicle-occupant
injuries.
• The leading cause of nonfatal injury was unintentional falls; however, leading causes
vary substantially by sex and age. For nonfatal injuries, the majority of injured persons were treated in hospital emergency departments (ED)
for lacerations (25.8%), strains/sprains (20.2%), and contusions/abrasions (18.3%); the majority of injuries were to the head/neck region
(29.5%) and the extremities (47.9%).
• For nonfatal injuries, age-specific rates were higher for males aged <65 years but
higher for females aged >65 years.
• For self-harm, the age-adjusted nonfatal injury rate for females was 1.3 times higher
than that for males.
• The types of injury treated in hospital emergency departments and the body parts
affected also varied by sex and age.
• Across all external causes of injury, males were more commonly treated than females for
lacerations and fractures, especially to the head/neck region and upper extremities.
• In contrast, females were more likely than males to be treated in a hospital ED for neck
strains; the majority of these injuries occurred among vehicle occupants during MV crashes.
• Females were also more commonly treated than males for fractures and sprains/strains to
the lower trunk (including hip fractures), and to lower extremities as a result of unintentional falls.
Source: Surveillance for Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries- United States, 2001
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5307a1.htm
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• The evidence is sufficient to infer a causal relationship between smoking and hip
fractures.
Source: The Health Consequences of Smoking: 2004 Report of the Surgeon General
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/
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| • During 2000, persons with nonfatal injuries were treated in emergency departments (ED)
at an estimated rate of 11,188 per 100,000 population. The nonfatal injury rate was approximately 40% higher for males than for females.
• Injuries to motor-vehicle occupants were the leading cause of unintentional nonfatal
injury-related ED visits for females aged 15-24 years.
• The non-fatal injury rate for pedal cyclists was 2.9 times higher for males than for
females.
• Sexual assault was the fourth leading cause of violence-related, nonfatal injury-related
ED visits; the nonfatal rate of sexual assault for females was 4.8 times higher than that for males.
Source: Estimates of Nonfatal Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments- U.S.,
2000
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5017a4.htm
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