Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Fatal injuries increase in older Americans
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 9th, 2010
The risk of dying from injuries is increasing for Americans ages 65 and older according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy. The report found significant increases in death rates from falls (42 percent increase), machinery (46 percent increase), motorcycle crashes (145 percent increase) and unintentional poisoning (34 percent increase). The results are published in the February issue of Injury Prevention and are available online at the journal's website.
"Our findings reveal significant increases in death rates from several different injury causes," said study co-author Susan P. Baker, MPH, a...
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