Unintentional injuries at school: Study of incidence among schoolchildren in Catalonia

Study of risky behaviors leading to unintentional injuries among high school students in Tehran, Iran.

OBJECTIVE To determine risky behaviors leading to unintentional injuries among Tehrani high school students in 2009. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out berween October and December 2009. Out of 237,300 (185151 governmental, 52149 non governmental) Tehrani high school students in both genders, 727 subjects were selected by multistage randomized sampling. Among 20 education dist...

The incidence of needle stick injuries among medical students at Tabriz Imam Reza hospital in 2014

Background and aims: Needle stick injuries are a common and serious occupational hazard in the medical settings. So, this study was aimed to assess the incidence of needle stick injury among medical students at Tabriz Imam Reza Hospital in 2014. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study which its data was collected from 211 medical students in Tabriz Imam ...

Unintentional injuries among children aged 1-4 years at home.

A hospital based case-control study was performed to determine causes of unintentional injuries among children aged 1-4 years at home. Data were obtained by interviewing parents and guardians of 242 children at Lerdsin Hospital in Bangkok, from August to October 1999. The results showed that falls were the most common type of injuries (54.6%). The age of 2 years comprised the major group (28.9%...

Pertussis Incidence among Schoolchildren

AKSAKAL, F.N., ÇÖPLÜ, N., CEYHAN, M.N., SÖNMEZ, C., ÖZKAN, S., ESEN, B., ILHAN, M.N. and AYGÜN, R. High Incidence of Pertussis among Schoolchildren with Prolonged Cough in Turkey. Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2007, 211 (4), 353-358 ── Older children, adolescents and adults with prolonged cough should be screened for pertussis, because they can be a major source of transmission for infants who are not y...

Prevention of Unintentional Injuries Among Seniors