Rising mortality from injury in urban China: demographic burden, underlying causes and policy implications

• Main Authors: Jiaying Zhao (Author), Edward Jow-Ching Tu (Author), Christine McMurray (Author), Adrian Sleigh (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: The World Health Organization, 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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In urban China, mortality from injuries has increased over the past five decades. By contrast, life expectancy has continued to increase and has come to nearly equal life expectancy in developed countries. Currently, most of the life expectancy lost due to injury (65%) in urban China would be recove...