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Productivity losses from injury in China
  1. Y Zhou1,
  2. T D Baker1,
  3. K Rao2,
  4. G Li3
  1. 1Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
  2. 2China National Center for Health Information and Statistics, Ministry of Health of China
  3. 3Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor Timothy D Baker, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; 
 tbaker{at}jhsph.edu

Abstract

Objective: To examine the productivity losses and costs of injury and disease in China using an improved approach.

Methods: Potentially productive years of life lost (PPYLL) were calculated for injury and four major disease groups (respiratory, cardiovascular, infectious, neoplastic).

Data sources: The mortality data are from the 1999 National Health Statistics Report and the morbidity data from the 1998 Second National Health Service Survey Report.

Results: Injuries caused an annual PPYLL of 12.6 million years, more than for any disease group. The estimated annual economic cost of injury is equivalent to US$12.5 billion, almost four times the total public health services budget of China. Motor vehicle fatalities accounted for 25% of the total PPYLL from all injury deaths.

Conclusion: Injury control and prevention programs merit priority to reflect the social and economic burden of injury in China.

  • potentially productive years of life lost
  • productivity loss
  • China
  • DALYs, disability adjusted years of life lost
  • PPYLL, potentially productive years of life lost
  • QALYs, quality adjusted life years
  • YPLL, years of potential life lost
  • potentially productive years of life lost
  • productivity loss
  • China
  • DALYs, disability adjusted years of life lost
  • PPYLL, potentially productive years of life lost
  • QALYs, quality adjusted life years
  • YPLL, years of potential life lost

https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.9.2.124

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