Years of potential life lost due to motorcycle accidents

Abstract

Introduction: Traffic accidents represent a serious public health problem, because they kill approximately 1.24 million persons annually, and leave another 20 to 50 million with non-fatal lesions and traumatisms worldwide. In Brazil, in the year 2011, motorcyclists alone were responsible for one third of these deaths. Therefore, the aim of this study was to estimate the years of potential life lost due to motorcycle accidents, according to sex and age group, and analyze the trend of the indicator for the state of Pernambuco in the period from 2005 to 2014. Methods and Results:An ecological study based on data from the System of Information about Mortality was used. The indicator and rate were calculated by using the age limit of 70 years. The linear regression model and Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests were used, at the level of significance of 5% and confidence of 95%. The most affected sex and age-range were men between 20-29 years of age. The rates followed a trend of growth in both sexes, in the young population with the exception of those from 10 to 19 years of age. Conclusions:This context points out the magnitude and precociousness of motorcycle accidents in both sexes and the young population.

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“…Thus, another mortality index called years of potential life lost (YPLL; Liutkutė, Veryga, Štelemėkas, & Goštautaitė Midttun, 2017) is increasingly being used by policy-makers, planners, and managers to help them define priorities for the prevention of premature deaths (Liutkutė et al, 2017). The YPLL expresses the effect of the premature deaths in relation to the duration of life expectancy for a certain population (Fernandes et al, 2017). This new indicator offers a full picture of how different causes of death affect population health and provides a way of monitoring and evaluating population health so that prevention and control strategies can be undertaken rapidly when neces-sary (Bonita, Beaglehole, & Kjellström, 2006).…”