Problem Background
Traumatic brain injury is a serious problem that results in many deaths each year due to various causes. Because these injuries are preventable, medical experts are constantly working to reduce these rates (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022). The situation in the country is monitored using the National Center for Health Statistics and state or local jurisdictions, which record each death and its cause, from which data is taken for further analysis presented in the report (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022). Demographic characteristics and the International Classification of Diseases classify information.
This paper analyzes the report for 2018 and 2019, where the sample is considered by age and by cause of death from traumatic brain injury. Figure 1 presents the results of this report; interpretation is given after the figure.
Analysis of Graphic Presentation
Note: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022.
Figure 1 shows that a significant proportion of deaths occur in older people due to unintentional falls. This mechanism leading to injury increases with age. If suicide becomes a determinant approximately equally for all age groups, the opposite dynamics with an increasing number of years is observed for the factors of homicide and motor vehicle traffic crashes.
Other causes are much less likely to act as mechanisms causing injury. Consequently, these factors are often dictated by problems of a psychological or criminal nature, while the direct influence of age is observed only in loss of balance, falls, or collisions with objects. Road accidents are more common among young people, which may be the result of careless driving violations of traffic rules – age groups are statistically less likely to drive due to possible other health problems. As a result, the problem is complex, and to prevent such injuries, several actions need to be taken across different safety areas, ranging from stricter traffic control to the availability of infrastructure for the movement of older adults in their locations.
Reference
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2022). Surveillance Report of Traumatic Brain Injury-related Deaths by Age Group, Sex, and Mechanism of Injury—United States, 2018 and 2019. Web.