title: Years of potential life lost from unintentional child and adolescent injuries--United States, 2000-2009.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Quantifying years of potential life lost (YPLL) highlights childhood causes of mortality and provides a simple method to identify important causes of premature death.
  
  
  METHODS
  CDC analyzed data from the National Vital Statistics System multiple cause of death files for 2000-2009.
  
  
  RESULTS
  An average of 890YPLL were lost each year due to unintentional injuries for every 100,000 persons aged 0-19 years. YPLL rates differed by sex, age group, race/ethnicity, injury mechanism and state.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This report provides new information which can be used to prioritize interventions and identify subgroups of the population most at risk.
authors.affiliation: Formerly with Center for Global Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA. nborse@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Nagesh N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Borse
authors.forename: Rose A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Rudd
authors.forename: Ann M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Dellinger
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Sleet
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D046688:Child Mortality / Q000639:trends; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality*; D055815:Young Adult