Men more likely to die from falls than women says 2015 Injury Deaths in Canada report

Posted June 19, 2019

  At-a-glance – 2015 injury deaths in Canada by the Public Health Agency of Canada in Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada Vol 39, No 6/7 June/July 2019. Access this document at https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.39.6/7.03

Here's an interesting thing that I learned from this summary of injury deaths in 2015:

"the ASRs [age-standardized rates] associated with falls also showed that males exceed females."

"This is primarily due to the facts that there are more females than males in Canada over the age of 60 and that the mortality rate associated with falls increases sharply in the older population. Detailed examination showed that males had higher mortality rates associated with falls compared to females almost across all 5-year age groups." [emphasis added]

We always hear about the higher prevalence of injury due to a fall in females compared to males, but mortality data is very eye-catching. Although there's many more women than men over the age of 65 - women don't die at the same rate as men from their falls.  

 

Alison
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Alison Stirling, MISt, MHSC
Knowledge Broker / Consultant Fall Prevention Community of Practice