Gender Differences in the Epidemiological Characteristics and Long-Term Trends of Injuries in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015: A Cross-Sectional Study

Pin-San Chou, Shi-Hao Huang, Ren-Jei Chung, Yao-Ching Huang, Chi-Hsiang Chung, Bing-Long Wang, Chien-An Sun, Shu-Min Huang, I-Long Lin and Wu-Chien Chien
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Pin-San Chou: Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 11490, Taiwan
Shi-Hao Huang: Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech), Taipei 10608, Taiwan
Ren-Jei Chung: Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech), Taipei 10608, Taiwan
Yao-Ching Huang: Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech), Taipei 10608, Taiwan
Chi-Hsiang Chung: Department of Medical Research, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 11490, Taiwan
Bing-Long Wang: School of Public Health, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 11490, Taiwan
Chien-An Sun: Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University, New Taipei 242062, Taiwan
Shu-Min Huang: Department of Infection Control, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei 11031, Taiwan
I-Long Lin: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tatung University, Taipei 104327, Taiwan
Wu-Chien Chien: Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 11490, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 5, 1-12

Abstract: Objective: This study used a long-term trend analysis to investigate whether gender differences were related to the risk of injury and epidemiological characteristics in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015. Materials and methods: Data on 4,647,259 hospitalized patients that were injured from 1 January 1998, to 31 December 2015 were collected from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD). Among the injured patients, 2,721,612 males and 1,925,446 females were identified. Patients were age-, gender-, and index date-matched. Multiple logistic regression was used to analyze the risks of injury via gender differences. A p -value < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: The injury risk of the male patients was 1.4 times higher than that of female patients (AOR = 1.427, 95% CI = 1.40–1.44). The rising trend of male injured hospitalized patients was also greater than that of female injured hospitalized patients. Conclusion: Males were more at risk of injury than females. Gender differences were related to the increased risk of epidemiological characteristics of injury.

Keywords: gender difference; injury; epidemiology; long-term trend analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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