Injury-Related Deaths according to Environmental, Demographic, and Lifestyle Factors
Table 2
Relative mortality rates from homicide and legal intervention, accidents and adverse effects, and suicide and self-inflicted injury in the contiguous United States according to age, sex, and race, 2011–15.
Homicide and legal intervention
Accidents and adverse events
Suicide and self-inflicted injury
Number
Relative rate
95% LCL
95% UCL
Pr > ChiSq
Number
Relative rate
95% LCL
95% UCL
Pr > ChiSq
Number
Relative rate
95% LCL
95% UCL
Pr > ChiSq
Age
0–19
9387
1.00
32703
1.00
6481
1.00
20–39
41537
3.35
3.26
3.44
<0.0001
162261
4.56
4.50
4.63
<0.0001
58157
6.07
5.86
6.28
<0.0001
40–59
15886
1.59
1.54
1.64
<0.0001
192725
5.34
5.27
5.42
<0.0001
77496
8.07
7.80
8.35
<0.0001
60–79
2749
0.88
0.83
0.93
<0.0001
122681
5.65
5.57
5.74
<0.0001
33689
6.90
6.66
7.14
<0.0001
≥80
134
1.18
0.80
1.75
0.4077
143786
31.41
30.96
31.87
<0.0001
6317
10.71
10.26
11.18
<0.0001
Sex
Female
12648
1.00
249700
1.00
40859
1.00
Male
63852
5.12
4.98
5.27
<0.0001
426206
1.94
1.93
1.95
<0.0001
160245
3.30
3.26
3.35
<0.0001
Race
White
34811
1.00
586933
1.00
187609
1.00
Black
40436
6.53
6.41
6.65
<0.0001
67655
0.86
0.85
0.87
<0.0001
9550
0.48
0.47
0.49
<0.0001
Other
1717
0.76
0.70
0.82
<0.0001
18425
0.46
0.45
0.47
<0.0001
5942
0.48
0.47
0.50
<0.0001
81194
679522
208287
Note. Homicide consists of deaths from injuries inflicted by another person with the intention of harming. Legal intervention consists of deaths from injuries inflicted by law enforcement agents. In addition, for each model, the relative rates were simultaneously estimated across the three variables.
