Severe traffic injuries to children, Trent, 1992-7: time trend analysis

Severe traffic injuries to children, Trent, 1992-7: time trend analysis.

Cross sectional survey of socioeconomic variations in severity and mechanism of childhood injuries in Trent 1992-7.

OBJECTIVE To determine the relation between morbidity from injury and deprivation for different levels of injury severity and for different injury mechanisms for children aged 0-14 years. DESIGN Cross sectional survey of routinely collected hospital admission data for injury 1992-7. SETTING 862 electoral wards in Trent Region. SUBJECTS 21 587 injury related hospital admissions for childre...

Trend of Fetal Traffic injuries in Iran from 2009 to 2018

Introduction: According to the World Health Organization, Iran has a high level of deaths caused by traffic accidents. Assessment of the death trend and examination of the mortality rate can provide useful information for policy makers to take preventive measures and reduce the casualties caused by these accidents. In this study, the status and trend of mortality due to traffic accidents was in...

Bacterial Sepsis in Brazilian Children: A Trend Analysis from 1992 to 2006

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to determine the epidemiology of hospitalized pediatric sepsis in Brazil (1992-2006) and to compare mortality caused by sepsis to that caused by other major childhood diseases. METHODS AND FINDINGS We performed a retrospective descriptive study of hospital admissions using a government database of all hospital affiliated with the Brazilian health sys...

O7: Epidemiology of Road Traffic Injuries among Children

Of all the unintentional injuries among children, about 38% are from children’s road traffic injuries (RTIs). This denotes 16.5% of mortality among children out of the global mortality for due to RTIs with fatal outcomes. As children grow older the predominant type of their injuries changes. Children aged among 5-19 are more likely to be injured on roads. They are mainly victims of the ad...