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Table 3 Lifetime medical and mortality costs of annual AI/AN injuries by injury intent and causea

From: Incidence, deaths, and lifetime costs of injury among American Indians and Alaska Natives

Injury category

Lifetime Medical Cost of Annual Injury Incidents (IHS users, 2017 USD thousands)

Mortality Cost (IHS service population, 2017 USD thousands)

Total Cost (2017 USD thousands)

Labor Productivity Losses

Household Productivity Losses

Costs by Injury Intent

 Unintentional

362,232

2,151,237

509,212

3,022,681

 Self-inflicted/suicide

9127

645,864

139,807

794,798

 Assault/homicide

38,125

377,968

78,407

494,500

 Other

468

468

 Undetermined

138,845

138,845

 Total Costs

548,796

3,175,069

727,427

4,451,292

Costs by Injury Cause

 Motor vehicle/traffic

40,512

1,284,615

297,032

1,622,159

 Poisoning

11,400

759,675

189,130

960,205

 Firearm

1012

453,386

87,223

541,621

 Pedestrian-related

744

233,027

50,830

284,601

 Falls

130,593

63,824

14,549

208,967

 Drowning

145

91,822

18,376

110,342

 Fire/burn

6110

55,122

14,335

75,567

  1. aNote: Table 3 shows estimated medical costs for treated injury events among 2011–2015 IHS users divided by five to reflect estimated annual non-fatal and fatal injury events. Estimated mortality costs, productivity losses for deaths among AI/AN in the 2008–2010 IHS service population are divided by three to reflect annual injury deaths. Costs assume that deaths with unintentional, suicide, and homicide as intents reflect all injury deaths. The Costs by Injury Cause section shows costs for selected causes that align closely with the cause of death categories. Some costs may be incurred in multiple categories. For example, the motor vehicle/traffic category includes pedestrian-related motor vehicle crashes and all other motor vehicle injuries