Open AccessInjuries in relation to chronic disease: an international view of premature mortality.
Author(s) -
Ian Richard Hildreth Rockett,
Gordon S. Smith
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.77.10.1345
Subject(s) - medicine , years of potential life lost , demography , disease , mortality rate , injury prevention , chronic disease , cause of death , occupational safety and health , poison control , gerontology , environmental health , life expectancy , population , surgery , intensive care medicine , pathology , sociology
Injuries are compared with heart disease, cancer, and cerebrovascular disease, using 1980 mortality data for the United States, France, Japan, West Germany and the United Kingdom. Emphasis is on premature mortality, measured by a rate of potential years of life lost between ages one and 65. Injuries are the leading cause of male premature mortality, and rank first, or second to cancer, in females. The United States sustains the greatest injury losses of these five countries.