Health Populi July 18, 2019
The rate of deaths due to unintentional injuries in the U.S. grew by 40% between 1999 and 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Three mortality line items make up this overall statistic:
- Deaths from motor vehicle traffic injuries
- Deaths from unintentional drug overdoses (that is, not including suicides which are defined as “intentional”), and
- Deaths due to unintentional falls.
The line graph illustrates the macro trend on the top-line, with the three specific causes underneath. You see deaths due to falls, motor vehicle accidents, and drug overdoses increased over the eighteen years.
Drug overdose death rates began to exceed motor vehicle traffic mortality in 2013.
There was three-times faster-paced growth in unintentional deaths in the...
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