Objective Purposed to study the epidemiological characteristics of traffic accident death 1997-2008 Minhang District, Shanghai.
Methods Data of traffic accident death obtained from municipal death monitoring system, demography from district residency record. The percentage composition, circular distribution, digitalized map and other methods are used to describe population, time and regional characteristic of traffic accident death; besides Years of Potential Life Lost(YPLL), and Premature Death Indexes were used to analyze disease burden caused by traffic accident death.
Results There were 1198 cases of traffic accident death from 1997 to 2008, with annual average 13.83& #215;10-5, standardized mortality 9.9& #215;10-5, and the sex ratio(m/f) was 2.06. However, mortality, YPLL and Index of life showed a downward trend. The proportion of pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists, (including scooterist)was 81.92%, and the mortality of 60 years and over caused by traffic accident is continuously increasing. The proportion of traffic fatalities in rural area was 41.84%(with population 18.52%); contrarily that of suburban area was only 8.16% (with population 16.25%). Traffic accident death tended to be concentrated in Dec. 9th and every Sunday.
Conclusion More attention should be paid to prevent against the death caused by traffic accident especially among the elder, pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclist(including scooterist).
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