title: [Characteristics of head injuries-data from the Jiangsu Injury Surveillance System, 2006-2014].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand the epidemiological characteristics of head injuries through data gathered from the Jiangsu Injury Surveillance System.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data on head injury that occurred during 2006-2014 were collected from the Jiangsu injury surveillance system and analyzed by SPSS 19.0 software.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From 2006 to 2014, data on 133 172 cases of head injuries were collected which accounting for 26.2% (133 172/509 175) of all the injury cases. Among them, males were 2.18 times higher than the females. The top five leading causes of head injuries were falls 24.6% (32 796/133 172), blunt force injuries 24.4% (32 446/133 172), motor car accident injuries 20.3% (26 993/133 172), knife or sharp force injuries 10.7% (14 183/133 172) and non-motor car accident injuries 6.7% (8 919/133 172). Main locations that head injuries occured would involve roads/streets 32.5% (43 262/133 172), working places 22.2% (29 526/133 172), at home 20.5% (27 925/133 172) and public residences 10.8% (14 367/133 172). Recreation activates 37.9% (50 479/133 172), driving 26.1% (34 749/133 172), paid jobs 24.8% (33 034/133 172) were the three major activities related to head injuries. Severity of injuries would depend on the situations on site. As for minor injuries, bruise accounted for 63.5% (67 929/106 912). Brain trauma 21.5% (5 119/23 803) and fracture 14.9% (3 554/23 803) appeared an increasing trend. Severe injuries would include brain trauma 74.6% (1 833/2 457). 78.8% (104 940/133 172) of the patients with head injuries would go home after receiving treatment the hospital, with fetality only as 0.1% (134/133 172).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Data from the Jiangsu surveillance program showed that Head injury appeared the highest proportion among all the body injuries that called for special attention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Non-communicable Chronic Disease Control, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing 210029, China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Non-communicable Chronic Disease Control, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing 210029, China.
authors.forename: Wencong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Du
authors.affiliation: Department of Non-communicable Chronic Disease Control, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing 210029, China.
authors.forename: Jinyi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Department of Non-communicable Chronic Disease Control, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing 210029, China.
authors.forename: Yongqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Disease Prevention and Control, Pukou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing 210031, China.
authors.forename: Zhan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Department of Non-communicable Chronic Disease Control, Zhangjiagang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Suzhou 215600, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.affiliation: Department of Non-communicable Chronic Disease Control, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing 210029, China.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000328:Adult; D001334:Automobile Driving; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011998:Recreation; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000453:epidemiology*