Men, stop riding motorcycles Women, stop having kids
That last one might have some detrimental effects long term though.
So while men are taking risks, women take one for the team
I know you're joking but three of the top four are basically 'work related'. Men taking one for the team doing all the dangerous jobs.
And maybe if the men stop riding motorcycles the women will stop getting plastic surgery which is also shockingly high as a reason to end up in hospital.
The follow-up article sorted by absolute numbers is a bit better suited, and predictably a bit more bland. Births is nearly in the top 10 though.
...but that's really going to mess up with general health policy (vaccination, checkup-visits, etc)
For similar reasons you may find a ton of other things which aren't normally an admission in the data, but at numbers less than one might expect because that alone isn't usually reason to admit.
I'm glad I got out of healthcare IT!
>I’m having to choose my words carefully, because I need to stress one thing: these are not the most common reasons for men and women to be admitted to hospital. They are the most typically male and typically female.
If you go to https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission... and sort by number of admissions, you get stuff like:
- Personal history of certain other diseases
- Personal history of medical treatment
- Personal history of allergy to drugs, medicaments and biological substances
- Personal history of other diseases and conditions
They built the roof that shelters you and your family when it storms.
The OP didn’t say all of the reasons for male related injuries were needless, but if you look at the list, it’s dominated by activities that are inherently voluntary and risky.
So out of 18 reasons on the list, only a small part is "activities men have to take to survive", but many of the others aren't "inherently voluntary and risky" or cannot be blamed on the hospitalized person. The list is too short to be really interesting, when half of that list is the same thing with small variations (cycling/motorcycling), and the same for women (mostly pregnancy).
Included in that same dataset are assaults and sports related injuries, which are additional risky activities.
You might argue assaults aren’t voluntary. My personal experience suggests most assaults are the result of voluntary activity rather than involuntary activity, YMMV.
I’m not being naive. I have lived in a 3rd world country where it wasn’t uncommon to see a family of 5 on a motorcycle.
I would note that you will tend to see, proportionately speaking, more women on motorcycles in those countries for the reasons you suggested.
As with all statistics, there is some apple to oranges comparisons and some contexts that get lost.
"HES contains records of all admissions, appointments and attendances at NHS-commissioned hospital services in England."
One could limit the data to accidents and illnesses. Outcome of pregnancy would then not qualify unless there were complications.
Thanks
PS: Female and male riders had this year nasty crashes in our club :(
Update: looked up some stats/surveys, apparently cycling skews 75-80% male.
Male cyclists are much more prone to be doing 40mph wheelies down a blind hill in the middle of the road than woman.
Don't get me started on motorcycles, PA is just next store (we are over the border in NJ). PA doesn't require helmets for motorcycle riders, and many male riders happily throw helmets to the wind. The level of stupidity there is astronomical.
Men: wanking into a tube
Would that make them the humans most likely to go to a hospital?
Also, probabilities don't work like that.
Are they accompanying their wives, end up fainting during the procedures, hit their heads and have to be patched up?
Trans people exist and are people too.
Edit: the full billing code is "Obstetric and gynaecological devices associated with adverse incidents" Billing code Y76 "describes the circumstance causing an injury, not the nature of the injury."
So injuring a baby during delivery with forceps would result in this code.
Wondering if this is point author is trying to make?
I think this was just a fun exercise for a curious mind. I don't think it needs to have a point - it's not an essay.
My personal favorite would be the amusingly bureaucratic "Acquired absence of organs, not elsewhere classified". I'm also curious how 14 people were admitted as "victim of volcanic eruption" in England.
This is a pretty stunning statistic to me. I suppose if you were to ask me to guess which gender is hospitalized the most frequently for mental health reasons, I'd probably guess women... but I wouldn't expect the distribution to be that extremely skewed.
Is there a simple explanation for this?
Men are over represented in prisons and the homeless population. Maybe they don’t seek help.
It's a silent epidemic when you look at mental health rates and it appear to be getting worse.
blakesterz•2mo ago
https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission...