DTIC ADA376637: Deaths Due to Injuries: Casualty Office Data

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1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank) 2. REPORT DATE 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED
Jan 99 Chpt 2 of Atlas of Injuries in the US Armed Forces
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5. FUNDING NUMBERS
Deaths due to injuries: Casualty office data
6. AUTHOR(S)
J. Helmkamp, J.W. Gardner and P.J. Amoroso
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION
REPORT NUMBER
US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Natick, MA 01760-5007 M99-9
9. SPONSORING / MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSORING / MONITORING
AGENCY REPORT NUMBER
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Ft. Derrick, MD 21702-5012
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13. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words)
This paper reports on all deaths (i.e., accidents, illnesses, suicides, homicides, hostile actions, and deaths of undetermined
cause) among active duty service members between 1980 and 1995. Data from the Directorate for Information Operations and
Reports (DIOR) and casualty offices for each service are used to describe trends in injury deaths and compare injury deaths to
other causes of death. The overall casualty rate declined 41% during this time, largely due to decreases in accidental deaths.
The accidental casualty rate declined 52%, but remained the single greatest cause of death, accounting for 54% of casualties in
1993. Taken together, accidental deaths, suicides, and homicides accounted for 80% of casualties between 1980 and 1995.
Motor vehicle accidents accounted for the greatest proportion of all casualties in 1994 in the Army (32%), the Navy (32%) and
the Marine Corps (41%); in the Air Force, suicide accounted for the greatest proportion (30%). Although the 16-year period
under study was characterized by relatively few hostile actions, deaths from hostile actions never accounted for more than 9%
of all deaths in any given year between 1980 and 1995. These data demonstrate the enormous impact that accidental injury has
on the U.S. Armed Forces.
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injuries, Army, Navy, Air Force, military, epidemiology, mortality, motor vehicle crash, suicide, 72
homicide, sports injuries, database, injury coding
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