The cross-sectional study was carried out on 4,397 households at Ha Noi city, Ha Tay province and Hai Duong province to investigate the prevalence of traumatic injury. Results: the rates of traumatic injuries were 22.8% in Ha Noi, 16.8% in Hai Duong, and 21.8% in Ha Tay. Injury is a leading cause of morbidity with the rate of 23.42/1,000 people/year, account for 20.4% of all illness. The causes of injuries were traffic accidents (43.6%), following by fall (31.6%). The highest rate was on age group of 50-54 years old (35.8/1000 people). The rate of traffic accidents among males was higher than this of female, and the most cause of traffic accidents was motorcycle accident (56.2%). Traumatic injuries were common in legs (24.0%), then in heads (22.9%), shoulders (18%), feet (17.9%), and arms (19.1%). Almost injuries influenced the diseases and economies of victims and their families.
Wounds and Injuries ; Epidemiology

1.321 elderly subjects in 3 provinces of the South Central Vietnam were enrolled into investigation. Their morbidity was rather high 25.8%, mainly chronical diseases 15.4%, and 4.2% related to trauma. The mortality was 0.08% in the cases of falling down, 0.23% in all general cases of trauma. The rate of hospitalized by trauma accounted for 43.6%, less one week treatment duration was 45.8%, from one week to one month 50%. The most traumatic victims were not the main sourse of household income, therefore the family income was not effected significantly. Post-trauma infirmity accounted for high rate, mainly for motion organs.
Wounds and Injuries ; Aged ; Epidemiology

The trauma related to traffic and fall accident accounting for majority of trauma due to labor accident (34.93% and 34.33%, respectively). the rate of trauma in males is triple than in females. It mainly occurs in the laboring age group (from 31 to 50 years old), focuses to 3 occupations, including mechanical, exploring workers and drivers. The distribution of labor accident related trauma is similar over 4 seasons, with slightly higher in spring and summer. The common places is working place and in the way between home and working place. The common injuries include foot bone fracture (19.85%), soft tissue and skin injuries (17.46%) and head trauma (15.07%).
Injuries ; accidents ; epidemiology ; Wounds and Injuries

A retrospective study on 273 patients who suffer from vomer trauma were conducted at ENT from Jan 2001 to Dec 2003. The result showed that: the number of patients in the following year often higher in the previous year, most of them are Kinh ethnic. Most of patients who suffered from fracture on vomer operated within 10 days so the result are good, no after effect and complication later. The simple nose bone fracture is higher than multiple trauma, rate in males is 5 times higher than in females. The rate for female in 2003 is higher than in 2002. The number of patients in the provincial level hospitals is higher than in the urban level hospitals. Reason: highest is traffic accident, then fighting accidents and lowest is labor accident. The bone nose fracture caused by fighting in the following year is higher than previous year. In 2002, the traffic accident lessen significantly to compare with 2001 but in 2003, there is an increase of traffic accident cases.
Nasal Septum ; Wounds and Injuries ; Epidemiology

OBJECTIVETo determine the nature and extent of Iranian casualties by ballistic missile attacks during the eight years of the Iraq-Iran war.

METHODSThe data collected about Iraqi missile strikes on Iranian cities included the following: date and time, number and type of missiles, cities targeted, and injuries and deaths resulting from impacts of missiles in civilian areas. The data were extracted from a database that was constructed by the army staff headquarters based on daily reports of Iranian army units during the war.

RESULTSOver a period of eight years (1980-1988), Iraqi army fired 533 ballistic missiles at Iranian territories. From those, 414 missiles (77.7%) landed on Iranian cities. The impacts of these missiles caused the deaths of 2,312 civilians and injured 11,625 others. Three types of ballistic missiles were used: FROG-7, Scud, and Al-Hussein (a modified version of the Scud missile). Twenty-seven cities in Iran were struck by Iraqi ballistic missiles. The highest mortalities from ballistic missiles were in Dezful and Tehran. Iraqi missile attacks continued for 90 months (2,748 days).

CONCLUSIONOur results point to the necessity of investigating the psychological consequences of Iraqi ballistic missile attacks among survivors in 27 Iranian cities during the eight years of the Iraq-Iran war.

Blast Injuries ; epidemiology ; Humans ; Iran ; Iraq ; epidemiology ; Time Factors ; Warfare ; Wounds and Injuries ; epidemiology ; Wounds, Gunshot ; epidemiology

Background: In Vietnam,every day on average at least 16 children died and more than 82 children were seriously injured by traffic accidents. Objectives: The study on epidemiological characteristics of traffic injuries in children.Subjects and method:A retrospective study of 539 children hospitalizedas a results of traffic injuries in National Hospital of Pediatrics, from january 2002 to december 2005. Results: Traffic injury hospitalization incidence rate is 0,42% (539/ 127706). Male/female was 1,46/1. Peak incidence occurs at ages 5 to 9 years. Rural children/ city children was 2,06/1. Crashes happened in october with highest frequency 12,8%, and weekend (34,8%). Motor vehicle crashes was 426 (79%). Motorcycle caused 70,4% crashes, and automobile 9,2%. 59% victims are child pedestrians.Conclusion: The traffic injury occurs commonly in children, especially in group 5-9 age. Motorcycle was the most principal vehicles occupant injuries.
Accidents ; Traffic ; Wounds and Injuries/ epidemiology ; Child ;

Background: Injury surveillance is viewed as an important component of injury prevention. Several data systems in the Philippines exist but have not been analyzed together. Analyzing these readily available data can guide policy making. Objective: This report aimed to describe the epidemiology of injuries in the Philippines using secondary datasets. Method: Death data of 2013 from the Philippines Statistics Authority and injury surveillance data of 2014 from the Department of Health were obtained and recoded. Summary statistics were generated. Results: Injured persons mainly come from the young age group. There were a higher number of males compared to females. Provincial variations in death rates for specific injury types existed. There did not seem to be an obvious pattern in injury occurrence according to month and time of day. High numbers of injuries were reported during daytime but admission and death rates peak at night. Injuries were shown to be an anatomically heterogeneous group with dominance in superficial injuries, head trauma, and hand fractures. Conclusion Analysis of secondary datasets revealed the epidemiology of injuries in the Philippines. Results have implications in health policy and injury prevention.
Epidemiology ; Secondary Data Analysis ; Wounds and Injuries

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the incidence and risk factors for musculoskeletal injuries among junior badminton athletes during a national championship. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted among 128 junior badminton athletes who were members of one Indonesian badminton club and participated in the National Premier Circuit held in June 2019 in West Java, Indonesia. Data on demographic characteristics, history of previous and current injuries, physical examination, diagnosis (type, anatomical structure involved, and location), and treatment of injuries were collected along with data on the format of the game (single, double, or combination), and the number of matches for each respective athlete. Measures of injury frequency used were the incidence proportion and clinical incidence. Determinant factors for incidence were investigated. Results: Twenty-four injury events involving 23 athletes were recorded, with an incidence proportion of 23/128 athletes (18%) and a clinical incidence of 24/128 athletes or 18.8 per 100 athletes. Acute injuries were more frequent (13/24, 54.2%) than chronic/overuse injuries. More than half (14/24, 58.3%) of the injuries occurred in the lower extremities. Factors that increased the risk of injury were age ≥ 15 years (relative risk [RR] = 6.26, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.96, 20.04, p < 0.001), and the number of matches ≥ 3 (RR = 3.79, 95% CI 1.61, 8.92, p = 0.001). Conclusion Musculoskeletal injuries occurred frequently among Indonesian junior badminton athletes during the national elite championship. An effective injury-prevention program specific to young athletes should be developed to maintain their future participation and performance in competition.
Racquet Sports ; Wounds and Injuries ; Epidemiology ; Athletes ; Adolescent

China ; epidemiology ; Cost of Illness ; Humans ; Wounds and Injuries ; economics ; epidemiology

Accidents ; statistics & numerical data ; China ; epidemiology ; Humans ; Wounds and Injuries ; epidemiology