FATAL INJURES TO U.S. INFANTS, 1983-1987

国家卫生统计中心将出生和死亡记录联系起来 为美国婴儿提供了第一个评估 与以下因素有关的人口、社会经济和产前风险因素 一岁以下婴儿因伤死亡。美国 对儿童死亡的研究一直局限于极其稀少的 标准死亡证明上提供的信息。两者都是描述性的 1983-1991年婴儿死亡的风险因素分析正在进行中 准备出版。死于凶杀，是导致 婴儿受伤死亡，正在单独进行检查，以确定 婴儿将成为预防这些死亡的特别干预措施的目标。 特别令人感兴趣的是最近对婴儿的一项方法学分析 被归类为“未确定意图”的伤害死亡。通过 评估这类伤害的风险因素概况，有可能 将这些伤害归类为可能是故意的或可能是无意的。 这项研究具有巨大的公共健康影响，例如 可能在不到一年的时间里增加凶杀案的死亡率 集团在美国减少了10%-15%。

The National Center for Health Statistics linked birth and death records for U.S. infants provides the first opportunity to assess the demographic, socioeconomic and prenatal risk factors associated with deaths due to injuries in infants less than one year of age. U.S. studies of childhood deaths have been limited to the extremely sparse information available on standard death certificates. Both descriptive and risk factor analysis of infant deaths for 1983-1991 are being prepared for publication. Deaths due to homicide, the leading cause of injury death in infancy, are being examined separately to identify infants to be targeted for special interventions to prevent these deaths. Of particular interest is a recent methodological analysis of infant injury deaths that are classified as "undetermined intent." By evaluating risk factor profiles of such injuries, it may be possible to classify these injuries as likely intentional or likely unintentional. This study has enormous public health implications, as such injuries could increase death rates from homicide in the less than one year age group by 10-15% in the U.S.