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@entity1 @entity204 @entity130
Injuries and violence are the primary causes of @entity204 among young @entity1 in the United States. In particular, in 1982-84 motor @entity130 , fires, drowning, and homicide were the leading external causes of @entity204 at ages 1-4 years and 5-9 years, accounting for nearly 80 percent of all @entity204 from external causes. The purpose of this article is to analyze race and sex differentials in @entity130 among young @entity1 . Race and sex differentials in injury mortality were measured in terms of relative risks, that is, race (black to white) and sex (male to female) mortality ratios. Race ratios for external causes ranged from 1.7 to 1.9 for @entity1 1-4 and 5-9, while sex ratios were somewhat lower, 1.4 to 1.8. Although race and sex ratios were relatively small for passenger-related motor vehicle fatalities (0.8 to 1.2) the ratios for pedestrian-related @entity130 were considerably greater (1.5 to 2.0). Race ratios for @entity204 caused by fires and homicide were particularly large (3.4 to 4.3). Mortality differences were also measured in terms of excess mortality. For each age-race group more than 65 percent of the overall excess @entity204 among males were due to external causes of @entity204 . Pedestrian-related motor @entity130 and drownings accounted for the largest proportion of excess @entity204 among males. At ages 1-4, 53 percent of the overall excess @entity204 among blacks were due to external causes. @entity204 caused by fires and homicide accounted for more than two-fifths of the excess in this age group. At ages 5-9, 81 percent of excess mortality among black males and 69 percent among black females were accounted for by external causes. Fires, pedestrian-related motor vehicle fatalities, and homicides accounted for nearly 65 percent of excess mortality among black @entity1 .There has been a 30 percent decline in @entity204 rates from all external causes between 1972-74 and 1982-84. Pedestrian-related motor @entity204 rates declined the most in both age groups.Mortality also declined in each age-race-sex group for passenger-related motor @entity130 , for drownings, and for fires except among black males ages 5-9. Homicide, in contrast, increased in both age groups. There has been little change, however,in the incidence of @entity130 among @entity1 . Thus,it appears that declines in fatalities accounted for a major portion of the mortality reduction.
