Residents of the Three Gorges reservoir area leading cause of death and potential years of life lost.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Residents of the Three Gorges reservoir area leading cause of death and potential years of life lost Authors: Zhang, Ning Gui-Jun, Maud strong, He Yuanyuan, Yan Chaoyang, Bin Jiang [Keywords:] cause of death; of potential life lost (PYLL); Three Gorges Reservoir Area Abstract: Objective analysis of the current residents of the Three Gorges reservoir area leading causes of death, in order to develop and provide scientific basis for disease prevention and treatment strategies. Methods for the systematic collection of population health monitoring points the Three Gorges reservoir area residents in the cause of death information on death-wide analysis of potential life lost (PYLL) analysis. The results in 2005, the Three Gorges reservoir area residents in the top 5 causes of death mortality, followed by cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, injury and poisoning, and digestive diseases, accounting for the cause of death posed by 8796%; caused by the loss of life of residents in the main diseases and injuries and poisoning, cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, endocrine nutritional metabolic diseases, respiratory diseases, PYLL total of 2,040,643 person-years. Conclusion Three Gorges reservoir area monitoring point of death people with chronic disease and injury and poisoning, mainly to strengthen the control of chronic diseases, reduce death and disability are the focus of future work. Keywords:: cause of death; of potential life lost (PYLL); Three Gorges Reservoir Area Analysis on trend of death and PYLL of residents in three gorges reservoir area Abstract: Objective To study main causes of death and PYLL of residents in the three gorges reservoir area in order to provide scientific basis in setting down policy and measure of disease control and prevention.Methods To collect death causes of residents from three gorges reservoir area health surveillance points and to make death causes