The causes of people with physical disabilities aged 15-59 years in China / 中华预防医学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To understand the present situation and the changes of causes of people with physical disabilities aged 15-59 years during the past 20 years in China.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The data of causes of people with physical disabilities aged 15-59 collected from the results of The China National Sample Survey on Disability in 1987 and 2006 were analyzed and compared by using epidemiology method.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The main category of causes of people with physical disabilities aged 15-59 was disease, followed by injury factors, congenital diseases, eccyliosis and other factors. Their causing-disability rates were 0.720%, 0.595%, 0.224% and 0.186% respectively. Other traumas had the highest causing-disability rate of 0.296% in all causes. As compared with those in 1987, the causing-disability rates of disease factors, injury factors and congenital diseases and eccyliosis were increased obviously. The top five causes of disabilities aged 15-59 in China were other traumas, poliomyelitis, arthropathy, cerebrovascular diseases and industrial injury in 2006; while the other traumas, poliomyelitis, other known causes, unknown causes and vascular diseases were the top five in 1987.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Disease factors and injury factors should be the main causes of people with, physical disabilities aged at 15-59 years, and the other traumas should have the highest causing-disability rate, and the arthropathy and cerebrovascular diseases might become the main causes.</p>