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Objective: 
To measure and characterize deaths due to home and leisure injuries in France (63 million inhabitants) from 2000 to 2006.
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The data come from death certificates, collected exhaustively. Causes of death are coded by using the external causes of injury codes of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision. The results are expressed in numbers, crude death rates, and age-adjusted death rates.
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In 2006, 18,549 deaths due to home and leisure injuries occurred in France, i.e. an age-adjusted death rate of 25.2 / 100,000. This death rate was 1.7 times higher for males than that for females: 32.2 / 100,000 versus 19.4 / 100,000. They are largely different with age: from a minimum of 1.3 among children aged 5-14 (99 deaths), to a maximum of 584 up to 85 years (7,327 deaths). Three fourths of home and leisure injuries deaths occurred up to 65 years (13,950 deaths), among which 57% were due to falls. The leading causes of deaths were: falls, 11.9 / 100,000; suffocations, 3.8; drowning, 1.6; poisoning, 1.5; fire accidents, 0.7. Between 2000-2002 and 2004-2006, the age-adjusted death rate decreased by 11%. This decrease was the highest for people under 15 years of age, 24%. Up to 65 years, the decrease was 13% (minus 1, 358 deaths).
Conclusion: 
In spite of the decrease between 2000 and 2006, home and leisure injuries remain a significant cause of death in France. Most of these deaths could be avoided with adapted prevention and regulation measures.

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