accidental injury of chinese children: priorities and actions

Accidental Injury of Chinese Children: Priorities and Actions

In China, there are more than 200 million children at present, which is the nation with largest amount of children in the world. The severity of accidental injury among children in China shall be noticed. Accidental injury among children is an important global public health problem. At present, it has become the first killer of children in the world and the main health problem, which threatens ...

Unusual injury? Recent injury in normal children and children with suspected non-accidental injury.

Four hundred normal children aged between 2 weeks and 11 years were examined to determine the prevalence and site of recent injury of any type. There was evidence of injury in 37% with a steady increase in prevalence to 60% by the end of the third year of life. Bruising of the hands and feet and of the lower legs was the most frequent type of injury. Head and facial injuries were most common be...

Patterns of fractures in accidental and non-accidental injury in children: a comparative study.

The incidence and pattern of fractures in children who had been abused were compared with those of fractures sustained by children of similar ages in whom abuse had been excluded. From 1976 to 1982 there were 35 children with fractures resulting from child abuse, and all were aged under 5. Of the 826 children in the control group, seen from January to June 1981, 85% were aged over 5. Abused chi...

Non-accidental injury to children: a survey of professional attitudes.

A small sample of general practitioners was questioned about non-accidental injury to children. Differences emerged between those qualifying before and after 1960. Differences were also found in management between the general practitioners and other workers in this field, health visitors, social workers and the police. The need to include this subject in the continuing education of general prac...

Screening for posttraumatic stress disorder in children after accidental injury.

OBJECTIVE Children who have experienced an accidental injury are at increased risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder. It is, therefore, essential that strategies are developed to aid in the early identification of children at risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology after an accident. The aim of this study was to examine the ability of the Child Trauma Screening...

Outcome for children subject to non-accidental injury.