Journal article
Poisoning deaths in China, 2006-2016
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol.96(5), pp.314-326A
05/01/2018
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.17.203943
PMCID: 5985423
PMID: 29875516
Abstract
To provide a comprehensive overview of poisoning mortality patterns in China.
Using mortality data from the Chinese national disease surveillance points system, we examined trends in poisoning mortality by intent and substance from 2006 to 2016. Differences over time between urban and rural residents among different age groups and across external causes of poisoning were quantified using negative binomial models for males and females separately.
In 2016, there were 4936 poisoning deaths in a sample of 84 060 559 people (5.9 per 100 000 people; 95% confidence interval: 5.6-6.2). Age-adjusted poisoning mortality dropped from 9.2 to 5.4 per 100 000 people between 2006 and 2016. Males, rural residents and older adults consistently had higher poisoning mortality than females, urban residents and children or young adults. Most pesticide-related deaths (34 996 out of 39 813) were suicides among persons older than 15 years, although such suicides decreased between 2006 and 2016 (from 6.1 per 100 000 people to 3.6 for males and from 5.8 to 3.0 for females). In 2016, alcohol caused 29.3% (600/2050) of unintentional poisoning deaths in men aged 25-64 years. During the study period, unintentional fatal drug poisoning by narcotics and psychodysleptics in individuals aged 25-44 years increased from 0.4 per 100 000 people to 0.7 for males and from 0.05 to 0.13 for females.
Despite substantial decreases in mortality, poisoning is still a public health threat in China. This warrants further research to explore causative factors and to develop and implement interventions targeting at-risk populations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Poisoning deaths in China, 2006-2016
- Creators
- Lijun Wang - National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and PreventionYue Wu - Central South UniversityPeng Yin - National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and PreventionPeixia Cheng - Central South UniversityYunning Liu - National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and PreventionDavid C Schwebel - University of Alabama at BirminghamJinlei Qi - National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and PreventionPeishan Ning - Central South UniversityJiangmei Liu - National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and PreventionXunjie Cheng - Central South UniversityMaigeng Zhou - National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and PreventionGuoqing Hu - Central South University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol.96(5), pp.314-326A
- DOI
- 10.2471/BLT.17.203943
- PMID
- 29875516
- PMCID
- 5985423
- NLM abbreviation
- Bull World Health Organ
- ISSN
- 0042-9686
- eISSN
- 1564-0604
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Research Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984949200602771
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