The global burden of injury: incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013.
Juanita A HaagsmaNicholas GraetzIan BolligerMohsen NaghaviHideki HigashiErin C MullanySemaw Ferede AberaJerry Puthenpurakal AbrahamKoranteng AdofoUbai AlsharifEmmanuel A AmehWalid AmmarCarl Abelardo T AntonioLope H BarreroTolesa BekeleDipan BoseAlexandra BrazinovaFerrán Catalá-LópezLalit DandonaRakhi DandonaPaul I DarganDiego De LeoLouisa DegenhardtSarah DerrettSamath D DharmaratneTim R DriscollLeilei DuanSergey Petrovich ErmakovFarshad FarzadfarValery L FeiginRichard Charles FranklinBelinda GabbeRichard A GosselinNima Hafezi-NejadRandah Ribhi HamadehMartha HijarGuoqing HuSudha P JayaramanGuohong JiangYousef Saleh KhaderEjaz Ahmad KhanSanjay KrishnaswamiChanda KulkarniFiona E LeckyRicky LeungRaimundas LuneviciusRonan Anthony LyonsMarek MajdanAmanda J Mason-JonesRichard MatzopoulosPeter A MeaneyWubegzier MekonnenTed R MillerCharles N MockRosana E NormanRicardo OrozcoSuzanne PolinderFarshad PourmalekVafa Rahimi-MovagharAmany RefaatDavid Rojas-RuedaNobhojit RoyDavid C SchwebelAmira ShaheenSaeid ShahrazVegard SkirbekkKjetil SøreideSergey SoshnikovDan J SteinBryan L SykesKaren M TabbAwoke Misganaw TemesgenEric Yeboah TenkorangAlice M TheadomBach Xuan TranTommi J VasankariMonica S VavilalaVasiliy Victorovich VlassovSolomon Meseret WoldeyohannesPaul YipNaohiro YonemotoMustafa Z YounisChuanhua YuChristopher J L MurrayTheo VosPublished in: Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention (2015)
Injuries continue to be an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed and developing world. The decline in rates for almost all injuries is so prominent that it warrants a general statement that the world is becoming a safer place to live in. However, the patterns vary widely by cause, age, sex, region and time and there are still large improvements that need to be made.