OBJECTIVES To review the evidence of general injury and pedestrian injury studies to determine if there are child behavioural, emotional, developmental, or physical characteristics that put children at higher risk for injury and, if there are such proneness risk factors, to determine their importance relative to other risk factors. METHODS This paper critically assesses 11 general child injur...

BACKGROUND Childhood injury is a leading cause of hospitalisation, yet there has been no comprehensive examination of child injury and survival over time in Australia. To examine the characteristics, temporal trend and survival for children who were hospitalised as a result of injury in Australia. METHOD A retrospective examination of linked hospitalisation and mortality data for injured chil...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether one can differentiate injured and uninjured young children based on child behavioural attributes or indices of caregiver supervision. METHOD A matched case-control design was used in which case participants were children presenting to an emergency department for treatment for an injury and age/sex matched control participants presented for illness-related reas...

OBJECTIVE To determine how parental injury affects the psychological health and functioning of injured as well as uninjured children. METHODS We recruited 175 parent-child dyads treated at a regional trauma center in 4 groups: parent and child both injured in the same event, child-only injured, parent-only injured, and neither parent nor child met criteria for significant injury. The preinjur...

purpose: to report the characteristics of children referred to the emergency department of feiz medical center with penetrating eye injuries. methods: in a cross-sectional study, children with penetrating eye trauma were evaluated. age, sex, parents educational level, time, location, and cause of trauma recorded and compared. results: overall, 100 patients with mean age of 7±3.8 (range 2 to 16 ...

Child abuse is a common problem seen by practicing physicians. To further define the incidence and the type of head and neck injury in children referred for evaluation of child abuse, a 5-year retrospective study of 4340 patients was undertaken. Of these patients, 2950 (68%) were victims of sexual abuse, while 1390 (32%) were victims of physical abuse. Forty-nine percent of patients abused phys...

Aim: To explore maternal perceptions of supervision and childhood unintentional injury in order to develop understanding and explanation for differences in unintentional injury rates between an advantaged and disadvantaged area. Background: Unintentional injury is the second cause of mortality and a significant cause of morbidity in the 0-4 year age group. Children living in socio-economic disa...

doi:10.2471/BLT.08.054767 Injuries and violence are a significant and growing cause of child death and disability, as well as having other health consequences including mental health, behavioural and reproductive health problems. Every year injuries and violence kill approximately 875 000 children (aged less than 18 years of age) and injure or disable tens of millions more. Injury-related cause...

Aim: To explore maternal perceptions of supervision and childhood unintentional injury in order to develop understanding and explanation for differences in unintentional injury rates between an advantaged and disadvantaged area. Background: Unintentional injury is the second cause of mortality and a significant cause of morbidity in the 0-4 year age group. Children living in socio-economic disa...

children under 5 years old are the most vulnerable age group in car accidents. researchers showed that application and correct use of child safety seats can reduce the risk of fatal injury by 71 percent for infants and 54 percent for toddlers. the purpose of this review is to identify factors and procedures that declare the correct use of child car seats which prevent children head injuries tha...