Abstracts by keywords: injuries
Every year around 5 million people die from injuries worldwide. This number accounts for 9% of all deaths [1]. It has been proven that men and young people die from injuries more often than women and the elderly, respectively [1–3]. In addition, injuries cause one million permanent disabilities in the European Union every year, and thus have a significant impact on public health in this region of the world [4]. The prevalence of injuries in Germany has only been examined by a few authors in recent years. In 2010, there were an estimated 8 million injuries and more than 20,000 injury deaths in this country [5,6]. In the same year, Rickels et al. found that the incidence of traumatic brain injuries in two separate regions of Germany was 332 per 100,000 people [7]. A cross-sectional telephone survey published in 2013 also estimated that more than 10% of the participants had been diagnosed with accidental injuries requiring medical treatment in the 12 months prior to the survey [8]. More recently, in 2016, Rommel and colleagues showed that at least 2.8% out of more than 14,000 adults were affected by an accident at work [9].