Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes · 2015 · Injury PreventionJuanita A. Haagsma,
Nicholas Graetz,
Ian Bolliger,
Mohsen Naghavi,
Hideki Higashi,
Erin C Mullany,
Semaw Ferede Abera,
Jerry Abraham,
Adofo Koranteng,
Ubai Alsharif,
Emmanuel A Ameh,
Walid Ammar,
Carl Abelardo T. Antonio,
Lope H. Barrero,
Tolesa Bekele,
Dipan Bose,
Alexandra Bražinová,
Ferrán Catalá-López,
Lalit Dandona,
Rakhi Dandona,
Paul I. Dargan,
Diego De Leo,
Louisa Degenhardt,
Sarah Derrett,
Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne,
Tim Driscoll,
Leilei Duan,
Ermakov Sp,
Farshad Farzadfar,
Valery L. Feigin,
Richard C. Franklin,
Belinda J. Gabbe,
Richard A. Gosselin,
Nima Hafezi‐Nejad,
Randah R Hamadeh,
Martha Hı́jar,
Guoqing Hu,
Sudha Jayaraman,
Guohong Jiang,
Yousef Khader,
Ejaz Ahmad Khan,
Sanjay Krishnaswami,
Chanda Kulkarni,
Fiona Lecky,
Ricky Leung,
Raimundas Lunevičius,
Ronan A Lyons,
Marek Majdán,
Amanda J. Mason‐Jones,
Richard Matzopoulos,
Peter A. Meaney,
Wubegzier Mekonnen,
Ted R. Miller,
Charles Mock,
Rosana Norman,
Ricardo Orozco,
Suzanne Polinder,
Farshad Pourmalek,
Vafa Rahimi‐Movaghar,
Amany Refaat,
David Rojas‐Rueda,
Nobhojit Roy,
David C. Schwebel,
Amira Shaheen,
Saeid Shahraz,
Vegard Skirbekk,
Kjetil Søreide,
Sergey Soshnikov,
Dan J. Stein,
Bryan L. Sykes,
Karen M. Tabb,
Awoke Misganaw Temesgen,
Eric Y. Tenkorang,
Alice Theadom,
Bach Xuan Tran,
Tommi Vasankari,
Monica S. Vavilala,
Vasily Vlassov,
Solomon Woldeyohannes,
Paul Yip,
Naohiro Yonemoto,
Mustafa Z Younis,
Chuanhua Yu,
Christopher Murray,
Theo Vos,
Shivanthi Balalla,
Michael Phillips BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors study used the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. This paper provides an overview of injury estimates from the 2013 update of GBD, with detailed information on incidence, mortality, DALYs and rates of change from 1990 to 2013 for 26 causes of injury, globally, by region and by country. METHODS: Injury mortality was estimated using the extensive GBD mortality database, corrections for ill-defined cause of death and the cause of death ensemble modelling tool. Morbidity estimation was based on inpatient and outpatient data sets, 26 cause-of-injury and 47 nature-of-injury categories, and seven follow-up studies with patient-reported long-term outcome measures. RESULTS: In 2013, 973 million (uncertainty interval (UI) 942 to 993) people sustained injuries that warranted some type of healthcare and 4.8 million (UI 4.5 to 5.1) people died from injuries. Between 1990 and 2013 the global age-standardised injury DALY rate decreased by 31% (UI 26% to 35%). The rate of decline in DALY rates was significant for 22 cause-of-injury categories, including all the major injuries. CONCLUSIONS: Injuries continue to be an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed and developing world. The decline in rates for almost all injuries is so prominent that it warrants a general statement that the world is becoming a safer place to live in. However, the patterns vary widely by cause, age, sex, region and time and there are still large improvements that need to be made.
