Characteristics and disease burden of injury among residents in Jiangsu Province， 2017

ObjectiveTo analyze the injury characteristics and the burden of disease for developing an injury prevention strategy.

MethodsData derived from the ‘National Injury Monitoring Report Card’ and the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2017（GBD 2017） was analyzed for the relevant indicators including proportion， disability adjusted of life years（DALY）， DALY rate，et al.

ResultsThe information of 91 507 cases was analyzed. Male cases were more than the females with sex ratio of 1.5∶1. The highest injury rate （38.1%） was in the group of 25-44 years old. The major career structure was production and transportation （25.5%）. The education level of most injured people was middle school. The top two causes of injuries were falls and traffic-related. In 2017， a total of 44 725 people died of injury and the crude death rate of injury was 54.77/10⁵， 64.51/10⁵ in male and 44.85/10⁵ in female. In 2017， the DALY and DALY rate caused by injuries was 217.8 thousand person-years and 2 667.27/10⁵. The top two injuries of DALYs were road traffic accidents and falls， followed by suicide， drowning and mechanical injury.

ConclusionTargeted prevention and control measures for road traffic injury and falls injury should be in place to reduce the burden of injury.