Homicide, suicide, motor vehicle crash, and fall mortality: United States' experience in comparative perspective.

摘要: US mortality data on motor vehicle crashes, falls, suicide, and homicide for 1980 are compared with corresponding France, Japan, West Germany, the United Kingdom. Unadjusted age-specific death rates presented, together age-adjusted of years life lost (YLL). A large male excess in is typical outside fall category. Motor crashes predominant cause YLL, States manifests highest YLL each sex. at older ages exceeded by those France Germany. The elderly generally manifest greatest risk suicide; American females exhibit a unique rate decline after 45-54 years, however. Beyond early adulthood, suicide lower than dwarf comparison countries 16- to 29-fold differentials separating prime-risk males aged 25-34 from their foreign counterparts.