JUNE 2003 - Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research

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Injuries are a leading cause of early death Potential years of life lost (PYLL) is one measure of the burden of diseases and other causes of death. PYLL is calculated by subtracting the age at death from 75 of those who died before age 75; and summing across all individuals who died prematurely from a particular cause. It is usually expressed as a rate per 100,000 persons. Figure B-3 shows that injuries were the second leading cause of years of life lost in 1996, even when suicide and homicide are tabulated separately. Today, intentional and unintentional injuries considered together are the leading cause of potential years of life lost. Figure B-3 Potential years of life lost (early death), Alberta, 1996 Potential Years of Life Lost 1996 (Standardized Rate/100,000) PYLL/100,000 1,200 1,000 1,009 963 800 600 400 529 492 200 129 0 Cancer Injury (not including suicide or homicide) Suicide Heart Disease Respiratory Disease Source: Health Surveillance, Alberta Health and Wellness Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 64
Injury deaths Figure B-4 presents injury-related deaths. The causes of injury-related deaths were combined over a 13-year period. The injury resulting in the highest number of deaths was suicide with 15.2 suicide deaths per 100,000 population in 1999. The other major causes of injury deaths and their rates per 100,000 population in 1999 were: • Motor vehicle collisions with a rate of 10.7. • Poisonings with a rate of 4.6. • Falls with a rate of 3.1. Undetermined intent and other classifiable and other deaths made up the remainder of injury deaths. Fire, suffocation, drowning, unspecified and homicides were included in the other category. Figure B-4 Injury deaths, Alberta, 1986-1999 Injury Deaths, Alberta, 1986-1999 Suicide MV Poison Falls Undetermined Intent Other Classifiable Other Fire Suffocation Drowning Unspecified Homicide Source: Health Surveillance, Alberta Health and Wellness Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 65
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Alberta Injury
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What are the injury control issues?
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Focus on the future—making Albert
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Outcome indicator Current status Ta
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Recommended Actions • Develop and
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Recommended Actions • Implement t
Page 15 and 16: Making Alberta the Safest Place to
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Page 19 and 20: PURPOSE OF THE ALBERTA INJURY CONTR
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Page 23 and 24: Table 2 (continued) Application of
Page 25 and 26: Table 3 Number of child injury deat
Page 27 and 28: Other highlights 10 specific to inj
Page 29 and 30: Challenge 2 Under-developed coordin
Page 31 and 32: Challenge 6 Limited research and pr
Page 33 and 34: Figure 3 Overview of the Alberta In
Page 35 and 36: MISSION Contribute to a healthy Alb
Page 37 and 38: Goal 1 Increase the awareness and c
Page 39 and 40: Goal 1 Objective 1.2 Increase the a
Page 41 and 42: Recommended Actions • Implement a
Page 43 and 44: Goal 3 Build and sustain the capaci
Page 45 and 46: Goal 5 Increase research and progra
Page 47 and 48: Goal 6 Optimize emergency response,
Page 49 and 50: Goal 6 Optimize emergency response,
Page 51 and 52: Making Alberta the Safest Place to
Page 53 and 54: • Community-based and not-for-pro
Page 55 and 56: − − Educate and train your work
Page 57 and 58: • Federal Government − − −
Page 59 and 60: • Facilitate stakeholder developm
Page 61 and 62: APPENDIX B Injuries know no boundar
Page 63 and 64: • Decrease the incidence of injur
Page 65: Injuries account for a significant
Page 69 and 70: Figure B-5 Rank order of injury cau
Page 71 and 72: Trends in injury mortality, hospita
Page 73 and 74: Injury hospitalizations and emergen
Page 75 and 76: Figure B-11 Rank order of injury ca
Page 77 and 78: Rank order of causes of emergency r
Page 79 and 80: OTHER INJURY DATA FOR ALBERTA Other
Page 81 and 82: • Four out of 10 First Nations pe
Page 83 and 84: Fire injuries Data on fires in Albe
Page 85 and 86: APPENDIX C 1 The technical definiti
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