@article{ref1,
title="Injury status and perspectives on developing community safety promotion in China",
journal="Health promotion international",
year="2003",
author="Zhao, Zhenwei and Svanström, Leif",
volume="18",
number="3",
pages="247-253",
abstract="The objective of this paper is to introduce the  epidemiology of injuries in China, and then consider the development of safe  communities in regard to injury prevention and safety promotion. The disease  spectrum has changed in recent decades in the People's Republic of China.  Both in cities and rural areas, injury has become the fifth leading cause of  death. At least 800 000 people die from injury each year, and 50 million  non-fatal injuries occur, of which 2.3 million lead to disability of varying  degrees of severity. The average injury-related death rate in China from 1990 to  1997 was 66 per 100 000, which accounts for 11% of total deaths. The potential  years of life lost (PYLL) of injury accounts for 24% of the total, and  disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) account for 17%. Main injury causes of  death, in descending order, are: suicide, traffic accident, drowning, falling,  poisoning, homicide, burn and scald, and iatrogenic injury. Considering  China's current injury status and its rapid societal change, injury  prevention and safety promotion need to be strengthened further, and there is a  special need for the development of Safe Communities programmes. The prevention  of injuries through safety promotion has been increasingly focussed on over  recent decades. The WHO Safe Community model is recognized as representing an  effective and long-term approach to the prevention of injuries at a local level,  and has been beneficially applied all over the world. A programme may cover  several aspects of injury prevention and safety promotion simultaneously, or  only include one or two aspects. In a Safe Community programme in China,  children, the elderly, cyclists and their passengers, and farmers should be  among the prioritized target populations. However, multi-focussed inter-sectoral  programmes have been shown to have additional effects to distinct sectoral  programmes.",
language="",
issn="0957-4824",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}