Nevertheless, the overall fatality rate from home accidents fell by 11% between 2000-2002 and 2004-2006. The largest decreases were seen in children under 15 (-24%) and 65 and over (-13%).
Deaths from home-related accidents (AcVC) represented 3.6% of total mortality in 2006, or 18,549 deaths. Two-thirds of deaths from AcVC occurred in those aged 75 and over, or 12,069 deaths. CVA caused a fifth of deaths between 1 and 4 years, or 116 deaths out of 605 and one in eight deaths between 5 and 14 years, or 99 deaths out of 771.
The study reveals that 24% of injuries caused by a daily accident are mainly located in the hip, against 21% in the head. Most of these injuries are fractures (51%) and damage to internal organs (27%).
Among the different types of accidents in everyday life, falls are considered to be the main cause of death (9,099 deaths per fall in 2006). Suffocations (2,848 deaths), poisonings (1,022 deaths), accidental drownings (1,008 deaths), and accidents caused by fire (496 deaths) follow.
It should be noted that, “other accidents of everyday life such as excessive efforts, false movements, electrocutions or stings-bites caused 650 deaths in 2006, while HLAs whose cause is not specified represented 3,426 deaths during the same year.
The largest decreases in the death rate from AcVC were observed for deaths from drowning (-13%), deaths from falls (-11%) and suffocation (-11%).
This study conducted by Linda Lasbeur of the Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) was carried out using a list of “accidents” taken from the external causes of trauma from the International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision.
