Regional specificity of mortality from external causes in the Republic Sakha (Yakutia)

Abstract

The authors have analyzed the features of the RS (Ya) mortality due to external causes, which are on the second place in the structure of causes of death in the Republic. There have been positive trends in reducing the proportion of external causes of mortality in the general structure for the 1990-2015. There were revealed a reduction in the proportion of road traffic deaths and an increase in the contribution of suicide. Considerable disparities by gender still remained. High mortality index of the male on external causes of death is much more important than the total for all causes of death. Excessive mortality from external causes is the main feature of the working age population mortality. In territorial aspect mortality is extremely high from external causes in the northern and arctic regions of the country. A specific feature of mortality due to external causes in Yakutia is a high death rate from accidental drowning; for this reason, there is the biggest gap with those in the Russian Federation and FEFD.