Title: Global Burden of Injuries
题目：外伤的全球危害
Author 作者: Andrea Tenner

General Information 一般资料:
Injuries are responsible for 10% of all deaths worldwide.
外伤占全球所有死亡的10％。
About 5.8 million people die from injuries worldwide every year.
每年全世界约580万人死于外伤。
Injuries kill 32% more people around the world than malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS combined.
在世界各地因外伤死亡的要比因疟疾，肺结核，艾滋病毒/艾滋病死亡的总和多32％以上。
Injuries have an immeasurable impact on the families and communities affected.
外伤对家庭和社区有不可估量的影响。
They are responsible for about 16% of all disabilities.
他们占所有残疾人的16％左右。
Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of injury related deaths among young people, aged 15–29 years.  Available global cost estimates show that the cost of road injuries annually is about US$518 billion.
车祸在15-29岁之间的年轻人是造成由外伤引起死亡的首要原因。现有的全球成本预测表明，每年交通事故外伤的成本大约是5千1百80亿美元。
More than 90% of deaths that result from road traffic injuries occur in low- and middle-income countries.
因交通事故死亡的90％以上发生在低收入和中等收入国家。
Road traffic crashes cost most countries 1-2% of their Gross National Product (GNP).
•大多数国家的交通事故成本超过其国民生产总值（ GNP ）的1％到2％ 。
Relevance to the EM Physician 与急诊医师有关:
Although road traffic injury deaths have decreased in some high-income countries, by 2030 it is predicted that they will be the fifth leading cause of death worldwide, and the seventh leading cause of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) lost.
虽然一些高收入国家的道路交通事故死亡人数有所下降，但到2030年，它将成为全世界第五大死因，和经残疾调整后生命年（ DALY ）缩短的第七大原因。
 

Bottom Line 要点:
Developing trauma and acute care capacities in low and middle-income countries is of utmost importance to mitigate the global burden of injuries.
在低收入和中等收入国家开展创伤和急性抢救能力对于缓解全球外伤负担是极其重要的。
References 参考文献：

World Health Organization, Global status report on road safety, 2013
World Health Organization, Injuries Violence The Facts, 2010