background: accidents are the second cause of death in iran and one of the significant challenges in public health. they can affect people in all ages. in this study, we try to calculate years of life lost due to intentional and unintentional injuries, which is considered as one of the main indicators for prioritizing public health problems.   methods: this study is a practical cross sectional ...

AIMS To examine the effects of the home environment on unintentional domestic injuries and related health care attendance in infants from deprived families. METHODS Ten mechanisms that caused unintentional domestic injury during the first year were investigated in a population-based study of 1-year-old children in southern Brazil. Odds ratios of injury-related health care attendance were esti...

Unintentional falls are common causes of serious injuries and health threats to patients as well as senior citizens living alone. Advanced computer vision algorithms and low cost cameras can be used for assessment of health hazards such as falls. In this paper, we propose a new approach to deal with this particular problem i.e. to detect unintentional falls, which are one of the greatest risks ...

Health care providers have numerous opportunities to intervene with parents and children to promote child safety practices that reduce rates of unintentional injuries. These individual-level interventions may be delivered in a variety of settings such as physician offices, clinics, emergency departments, or hospitals. This article systematically reviews 22 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) th...

introduction: different factors such as parents’ knowledge and attitudes regarding preventive measures (pm) have a great role in reducing children unintentional home injuries. the present study aims to evaluate the contributing factors of unintentional home injury prevention in preschool victims presented to the emergency department. methods: the subjects consisted of all the mothers of prescho...

Injury-associated deaths have substantial economic consequences. In 2013, unintentional injury was the fourth leading cause of death, suicide was the tenth, and homicide was the sixteenth; these three causes accounted for approximately 187,000 deaths in the United States. To assess the economic impact of fatal injuries, CDC analyzed death data from the National Vital Statistics System for 2013,...