Titre : | Fall-induced deaths among elderly people. (2005) |
Auteurs : | KANNUS (Pekka) : FIN. Department of Surgery. Tampere University Medical School and University Hospital. Tampere. ; Seppo NIEMI ; Mika PALVANEN ; PARKKARI (Jari) : FIN. Tampere Research Center of Sports Medicine. President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute for Health Promotion Research. ; President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute for Health Promotion Research. Accident & Trauma Research Center. Tampere. FIN |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 95, n° 3, 2005) |
Pagination : | 422-424 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Chute ; Mort ; Mortalité ; Personne âgée ; Homme ; Traumatisme |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS zQcR0xsk. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Falls and fall-induced injuries in older people are a major public health problem in modern societies with aging populations. Injury is the fifth leading cause of death in older adults, and most of these fatal injuries are related to falls. We have assessed the nationwide trends in fall-induced deaths of older people in Finland for more than 3 decades (1971-2002), and the results showed that the number of fall-induced deaths among elderly Finns is clearly increasing, especially among men. |