PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nguyen, Quynh Anh
AU  - Nguyen, Thu Ha
AU  - Beardsley, Justin
AU  - Castle, Chris D
AU  - Dang, Anh Kim
AU  - Dingels, Zachary V
AU  - Fox, Jack T
AU  - Hoang, Chi Linh
AU  - Lewycka, Sonia
AU  - Liu, Zichen
AU  - Mokdad, Ali H
AU  - Nguyen, Nhung Thi Trang
AU  - Nguyen, Son Hoang
AU  - Pham, Hai Quang
AU  - Roberts, Nicholas L S
AU  - Sylte, Dillon O
AU  - Tran, Bach Xuan
AU  - Tran, Khanh Bao
AU  - Vu, Giang Thu
AU  - James, Spencer L
AU  - Nguyen, Thanh Huong
TI  - Burden of injuries in Vietnam: emerging trends from a decade of economic achievement
AID  - 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043352
DP  - 2020 Oct 01
TA  - Injury Prevention
PG  - i75--i82
VI  - 26
IP  - Suppl 2
4099  - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_2/i75.short
4100  - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_2/i75.full
SO  - Inj Prev2020 Oct 01; 26
AB  - Background Vietnam has been one of the fastest-growing world economies in the past decade. The burden of injuries can be affected by economic growth given the increased exposure to causes of injury as well as decreased morbidity and mortality of those that experience injury. It is of interest to evaluate the trends in injury burden that occurred alongside Vietnam’s economic growth in the past decade.Methods Results from Global Burden of Disease 2017 were obtained and reviewed. Estimates of incidence, cause-specific mortality, years lived with disability, years of life lost, disability-adjusted life years were analysed and reported for 30 causes of injury in Vietnam from 2007 to 2017.Results Between 2007 and 2017, the age-standardised incidence rate of all injuries increased by 14.6% (11.5%–18.2%), while the age-standardised mortality rate decreased by 11.6% (3.0%–20.2%). Interpersonal violence experienced the largest increase in age-standardised incidence (28.3% (17.6%–40.1%)), while exposure to forces of nature had the largest decrease in age-standardised mortality (47.1% (37.9%–54.6%)). The five leading causes of injury in both 2007 and 2017 were road injuries, falls, exposure to mechanical forces, interpersonal violence and other unintentional injuries, all of which increased in incidence from 2007 to 2017. Injury burden varied markedly by age and sex.Conclusions The rapid expansions of economic growth in Vietnam as well as improvements in the Sociodemographic Index have occurred alongside dynamic patterns in injury burden. These results should be used to develop and implement prevention and treatment programme.