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March 2005, Vol 95, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 422-424
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.047779

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Fall-Induced Deaths Among Elderly People

Pekka Kannus, MD, PhD, Jari Parkkari, MD, PhD, Seppo Niemi and Mika Palvanen, MD, PhD

Pekka Kannus, Seppo Niemi, and Mika Palvanen are with the Accident & Trauma Research Center, President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute for Health Promotion Research, Tampere, Finland. Pekka Kannus is also with the Department of Surgery, Tampere University Medical School and University Hospital, Tampere, Finland. Jari Parkkari is with Tampere Research Center of Sports Medicine, President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute for Health Promotion Research.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Pekka Kannus, MD, PhD, UKK Institute, PO Box 30, FIN-33501 Tampere, Finland (e-mail: pekka.kannus{at}uta.fi).

Falls and fall-induced injuries in older people are a major public health problem in modern societies with aging populations. Injury is the fifth leading cause of death in older adults, and most of these fatal injuries are related to falls.

We have assessed the nationwide trends in fall-induced deaths of older people in Finland for more than 3 decades (1971–2002), and the results showed that the number of fall-induced deaths among elderly Finns is clearly increasing, especially among men.




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