Unintentional Home Injuries Across the Life Span: Problems and Solutions
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[Unintentional injuries in the home environment: home safety].
OBJECTIVE To review the characteristics of unintentional injuries and their impact on children and adolescents. SOURCES OF DATA Articles published between 2000 and 2005 in the MEDLINE, EBSCO, Proquest, SciELO, BVS and Google Scholar databases were selected. The authors used the keywords unintentional injuries, injuries, safe home, burns, falls, drowning, scorpions, snakes, poisoning, child, a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Public Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0163-7525,1545-2093
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122722