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Statistics
Several organizations regularly release statistical information on
brain injury:
From the Brain Injury Association
of America:
- Every 21 seconds, one person in the US sustains a Traumatic Brain
Injury.
- An estimated 5.3 million Americans - a little more than 2% of the
US population - currently live with disabilities resulting from
traumatic brain injury.
- 1.5 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury each year.
- More than 50,000 people die every year as a result of a traumatic
brain injury.
For more facts and statistics from the Brain Injury Association of
America:
Facts and
Stats
From the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Each year in the United States, an estimated
- 1.4 million people sustain a TBI. Of those, 235,000 are
hospitalized and survive, which is more than 20 times the number of
hospitalizations for spinal cord injury, another key disabling injury.
(CDC 2001; Langlois et al. 2004).
- 50,000 people die from a TBI, (Langlois et al. 2004).
- 80,000 to 90,000 people experience the onset of long-term or
lifelong disability associated with a TBI (Thurman et al. 1999).
TBI: General
Fact Sheet (pdf document)
TBI: General Fact
Sheet Spanish (pdf document)
Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States (link to CDC's site)
Incidence and Distribution (link to CDC's site)
For statistics on teenagers, see the
Prevention for Teens and Young Adults
page.
Other sources for Statistics:
MedLine - Health news of all sorts from the U.S. National
Library of Medicine.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ Hint: search for "tbi" and
find a wealth of information.
For specifics about Ohio:
- Ohio does not currently have a system in place to track and report
brain injury figures.
- The CDC's estimated 2% rate applied to Ohio's 11,353,000
population (from the 2000 census) would be approximately 227,000.
Using the estimated Ohio population for 2005, 2% of 11,464,042
would be over 229,000.
- NOTE: to figure out the number of people with
disabilities resulting from TBI in your county or city, simply apply
the 2% rate to your county or city's population. The Ohio
Department of Development maintains population statistics on its
website:
http://www.odod.state.oh.us/ Click on "Research and
Data," then "County Population Estimates" to find additional population estimates.
- Ohio established the Post-Critical Trauma Care
Commission to determine how to improve the accessibility,
affordability, quality, and cost effectiveness of post-critical adult
and pediatric trauma care. The commission was required to complete
its work by Nov. 3, 2003. Read the
Post-Critical Trauma Care Commission's final report
(pdf document). This document contains
statistics, definitions and recommendations to improve Ohio's care for
individuals with traumatic injury including brain injury.
From the Ohio Trauma Registry (OTR):
- Over one fifth of the injuries reported to the
OTR involve Traumatic Brain Injuries, Spinal Cord Injuries or Burns.
These categories have high incidence of needing post acute care
rehabilitation services.
- TBI: 17.74% (Spinal Cord injury: 1.36%;
Burns 2.93%)
From the Ohio Department of Public Safety:
- Approximately 75 percent of fatal crashes occur
within 25 miles of home.
- On average, more than half of all Ohioans who
die on our roadways in motor vehicle crashes are not buckled up.
- Statistics show that 41 percent of passenger
car occupants and 45 percent of light truck occupants who are involved
in fatal crashes are unrestrained.
- Since 1994, it is estimated that safety belts
have saved over 147,246 lives.
- Nationally, the leading cause of death among
Americans 4 to 33 years old is motor vehicle crashes.
- Air bags do not protect you from rear or side
collisions, rollovers, fender-benders, and panic stops. Only
safety belts do.
- Approximately 75 percent of car occupants who
are totally ejected in a car crash die.
- Ohio children under 40 pounds or under fours
years old must travel in approved car safety seats. Call
1-800-755-GROW or 1-866-CAR SEAT for details.
Source: Buckle Up! And Beat the Odds! Ohio
Department of Public Safety. March 2004.
* Development of this section of our website was made possible
through a grant from the Ohio Department of Public Safety / EMS
Division.
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