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KMID : 0378019880310040055
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New Medical Journal
1988 Volume.31 No. 4 p.55 ~ p.60
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A Study on the Deaths due to Injury and Poisoning
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문백/Moon, Baek
김윤기/강동섭/김무원/배재웅/김종석/문재규/Kim, Yoon Kee/Kang, Dong Sub/Kim, Moo Won/Bae, Jae Woong/Kim, Jong Seok/Moon, Jae Gyu
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Abstract
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With the rapid change of industrializing in Korea, the importance of accidents is emphasized as the major problem of preventine medicine and safety.
And the increase iri number of mortar vehicles and the transition to high-industrialized society are regarded to be cause the various kinds of accidents.
This study was conducted to find out the pattern of deaths due to injury and poisoning and the data used in the study is 1985 cause of death statistics.
The major findings are as follows:
1. About 20-23 percent of deaths in male and about 15 percent in female were from injury and poisoning based on the data diagnosed by medical doctors. But based on all the classifiable data in 1985, 14.4 percent of male and 7.5 percent of female were from injury and poisoning.
2. In male of age 25-34 and in female of age 15-24 the proportion of deaths from injury and poisoning is more than in any other age group.
3. 37.5 percent of deaths from injury and poisoning were due to fracture of skull and intracranial injuryy, and 12.1 percent of male were from drowning and nonfatal submersion and 11.5 percent of female were from toxic effect of unspecified substance.
4. The most proportion of death from injury and poisoning were due to motor vehicle traffic accidents in both sexes by the external causes.
Next the suicide and self-inflicted injury of male (15.3%) and accidental poisoning of female (20.517o) are also the major causes of death in injury and poisoning.
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