title: [Epidemiological study on the trend of accidental deaths among children under five in Beijing, during 2003-2012].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the trend of accidental death among children under 5 years of age in Beijing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cases of death in children under 5 years old in Beijing, during 2003-2012 were collected, to analyze the strength and trends of accidental death, main causes of accident and its epidemiological features.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall accidental death was 8.47% of all death among children under 5 years old in Beijing during 2003-2012. During these 10 years, data showed a downward trend on the mortality rates on injuries (P < 0.05), especially on drowning, in 1-4 year old and rural children under five years of age. In 2012, the accidental death rate of children under five was 6.37/105. The 5 main causes of accidental deaths were suffocation, traffic accident, falling, poisoning and drowning, in order of size. The main causes of death were suffocation in the 0-1 year group, suffocation and traffic accident in the 1-2 year group and traffic accident in the 3-4 year group. The proportion of deaths due to traffic accident increased gradually with age. Area distribution showed that accidental deaths mainly happened in rural area (52.19%), with two main types as traffic accident and suffocation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The reduction of accidental death rate among children under 5 years old in Beijing mainly was caused by the decline of accident mortality in 1-4 year old and children in the rural areas. Our data suggested that the focus in reducing the accidental death rate among children under 5 years old in Beijing should target on the prevention of infant suffocation and traffic accidents among the 1-4 year old, with rural areas in particular.
authors: Development, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100026, China. Email: wtyebs@sina.com.
authors: Shujuan
authors: S
authors: Yan
authors: Development, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100026, China.
authors: Xuena
authors: X
authors: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents / Q000401:mortality*; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality; D001237:Asphyxia / Q000401:mortality; D002423:Cause of Death; D046688:Child Mortality; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004332:Drowning / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013405:Suicide