Falls in older aged adults in 22 European countries: incidence, mortality and burden of disease from 1990 to 2017

Juanita A Haagsma; Branko F Olij; Marek Majdan; Ed F van Beeck; Theo Vos; Chris D Castle; Zachary V Dingels; Jack T Fox; Erin B Hamilton; Zichen Liu; Nicholas L S Roberts; Dillon O Sylte; Olatunde Aremu; Till Winfried Bärnighausen; Antonio M Borzì; Andrew M Briggs; Juan J Carrero; Cyrus Cooper; Ziad El-Khatib; Christian Lycke Ellingsen; Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad; Irina Filip; Florian Fischer; Josep Maria Haro; Jost B Jonas; Aliasghar A Kiadaliri; Ai Koyanagi; Raimundas Lunevicius; Tuomo J Meretoja; Shafiu Mohammed; Ashish Pathak; Amir Radfar; Salman Rawaf; David Laith Rawaf; Lidia Sanchez Riera; Ivy Shiue; Tommi Juhani Vasankari; Spencer L James; Suzanne Polinder

doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043347

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Falls in older aged adults in 22 European countries: incidence, mortality and burden of disease from 1990 to 2017

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Juanita A Haagsma Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Branko F Olij Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Consumer Safety Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Marek Majdan Department of Public Health, Trnava University, Trnava, Slovakia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ed F van Beeck Department of Public Health, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Chris D Castle Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Zachary V Dingels Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jack T Fox Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Erin B Hamilton Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Zichen Liu Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Nicholas L S Roberts Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Dillon O Sylte Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Olatunde Aremu School of Health Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Till Winfried Bärnighausen Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Antonio M Borzì General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Andrew M Briggs School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia Ageing and Life Course, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Juan J Carrero Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Cyrus Cooper Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Department of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ziad El-Khatib Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Christian Lycke Ellingsen Department of Pathology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Division of Neurology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Irina Filip Psychiatry Department, Kaiser Permanente, Fontana, California, USA School of Health Sciences, A.T. Still University, Mesa, Arizona, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Florian Fischer School of Public Health Medicine, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Josep Maria Haro Biomedical Research Networking Center for Mental Health Network (CiberSAM), Madrid, Spain Research and Development Unit, San Juan de Dios Sanitary Park, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jost B Jonas Department of Ophthalmology, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Aliasghar A Kiadaliri Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Lund, Sweden PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ai Koyanagi CIBERSAM, San Juan de Dios Sanitary Park, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Raimundas Lunevicius Department of General Surgery, Aintree University Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK Department of Surgery, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tuomo J Meretoja Breast Surgery Unit, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Shafiu Mohammed Health Systems and Policy Research Unit, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ashish Pathak Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Pediatircs, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Amir Radfar College of Graduate Health Sciences, A.T. Still University, Mesa, Arizona, USA Medichem, Barcelona, Spain PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Salman Rawaf Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Academic Public Health, Public Health England, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David Laith Rawaf WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, Imperial College London, London, UK University College London Hospitals, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lidia Sanchez Riera Department of Rheumatology, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK Institute of Bone and Joint Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ivy Shiue Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tommi Juhani Vasankari UKK Institute, Tampere, Finland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Spencer L James Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Suzanne Polinder Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Juanita A Haagsma, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; j.haagsma{at}erasmusmc.nl

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Haagsma JA, Olij BF, Majdan M, et al

Falls in older aged adults in 22 European countries: incidence, mortality and burden of disease from 1990 to 2017

Injury Prevention 2020;26:i67-i74.

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Received June 17, 2019
Revised August 14, 2019
Accepted August 18, 2019
First published February 28, 2020.

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November 15, 2022

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