The elderly and children under 4 are the most prone to everyday accidents.
- A home accident (Ac-VC) is an unintentional injury that does not occur on the road or during working hours in connection with paid employment or self-employment.
- The Ac-VC are divided between domestic accidents, accidents occurring outside (shop, sidewalk, etc.), sports accidents and vacation and leisure accidents.
A new study by Public Health France has analyzed mortality from accidents in everyday life in France.
Accidents of everyday life (AcVC) have a significant impact in terms of morbidity and mortality. “The objective of this article is to describe mortality by AcVC in 2016 in France according to sex, age, type of AcVC, traumatic injury, place of death and region, as well as the main changes by age and type of stroke since 2012”, explain the authors of the research in the preamble.
Watch out for choking and falling
First lesson: the number of deaths from everyday accidents increased by 10% between 2012 and 2016. In 2016 in France, there were 24,211.
Accidents are the leading cause of death among children aged 1 to 4, who are mainly victims of suffocation and drowning. Moreover, accidental deaths mainly occurred at high ages. “Falls account for nearly half of AcVC deaths”, add the scientists.
For more prevention
“Many deaths from AcVC could be avoided by appropriate preventive measures”, estimates Public Health France. Before concluding : “a better knowledge of the circumstances of the occurrence of the AcVCs at the origin of the deaths would make it possible to better understand the events and the chronology which led to the death”.
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