In this week lecture, we talked about adolescents, young adults and adults. What striked the most of reading this chapter was the leading causes of death for young adults. The three leading causes of death for young adults are Unintentional injuries, homicide and suicide. It didn’t really surprise me that the leading cause of death for young adults is unintentional injures. According to Blum and Gates (2011) Nearly 75% of all deaths in the second decade result from unintential injuries, including vehicular injuries, unintentional drowning, and unintentional discharge from a firearm. Also, males are more at higher risk of dying from an unintentional injury than a females. “ The mortality rate due to unintentional injury for males is 39 deaths
