Injury and Poisoning Mortality among Young Men—Are There any Common Factors Amenable to Prevention?

Abstract

Alcohol and drug use are important contributory factors to injury and poisoning deaths. More research is needed into the effects of unemployment and being single on the health of young men, and to investigate the motivations behind risk taking and self-destructive behaviour.

Unknown Poisoning Amongst Serving Personnel

“…In one study the average annual number of emergency department visits over three years was 93 million, of which 37 million were injury related and one million were poisoning-related [5]. British researchers have found alcohol to be an important contributory factor to injury and poisoning death [6].…”

Crisis—A Wide Range of Issues

“…For their paper on "Injury and poisoning mortality among young men: Are there any common factors amenable to prevention?" D. Stanistreet and V. Jeffrey (2003) studied 268 young men (15-39 years) who died from injury and poisoning (suicide, accidents, undetermined deaths, and homicide), the major causes of death among young men in England and Wales. The most common cause of death was poisoning due to alcohol and drugs.…”