Death reason analysis of Chinese 5 ～ 14 years children in rural and urban areas in 2008
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2010.06.021
- VernacularTitle:2008年我国5～14岁城乡儿童死亡原因分析
- Author:
Qingshan GENG
;
Guihao LIU
;
Yunlian XUE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Urban and rural areas;
Children;
Mortality;
Death reasons
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2010;19(6):538-540
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate death reasons for China rural and urban children who aged between 5 and 14 years old during 2008.Methods Using the illness or injury causes of death and demographic indicators of China Health Statistics Yearbook 2009 to describe 5 to 14 year-old children' s disease-related indicators and causes of death,compare difference between rural and urban children.Results Hospitalization rates (23.0‰ vs 12.1‰, χ2 = 255.584 ), prevalence of two weeks (79.8‰ vs 63.9‰, χ2= 142.446 ), attendance of two weeks (95.6‰ vs 68.1‰, χ2 = 376.954) and prevalence of chronic diseases (9.0‰ vs 7.0‰, χ2 = 18.941 ) of 5 to 14year-old children in rural were all higher than urban children, with statistically significant difference.Injury and poisoning,cancer,congenital diseases were the top three causes of death for 5 to 14 children.In many diseases which caused injury and poisoning,drowning was the first cause of death ,traffic accidents accounted for the second place;suicide was the fourth cause of death for city children and second cause of death for city girls.Conclusion High-risk death reasons for Chinese 5 to 14 year-old children in 2008 are the same, but disease threat on the death of are in varying degrees ,which shows urban-rural and gender differences.
