Home-Related Injuries: Do Pay Much Attention to Traffic Accidents Resulted in Home-Related Injuries Negligence?

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Although the home-related injury is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality among Iranians, there are few proven effective interventions to reduce the home injury risks. The arrangement of systematic approaches to study, arrange, and deliver strategies to reduce home accidents in our country is fundamental. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Trauma as the sixth leading cause of death, and the fifth cause of moderate and severe disability around the world, accounts for 10% of mortalities (1). Although almost all sorts of traumas are common, focused on traffic accidents, which may be due to the rapid growth of accidents or worldwide social, economic, political and health problems, have resulted in ignoring the others especially household events, which may involve every member of the family. In the united states, house-related injuries are the main causes of injury among young children, which is accounting for more than 13 million outpatient visits, 4 million emergency visits, 74000 hospitalizations, and 2800 deaths each year (2). In the United Kingdom, 75 children under 15 years old, died due to injuries in the home a year. This figure comprises 25 percent of all child injury deaths (3). In Iran, during recent decades, rapid changes have appeared in different aspects of social life and living style from a traditional pattern to a modern one. Living in an apartment has become common and numerous changes have made in the internal design and decoration of houses. These are sometimes different with the traditional cultural beliefs, trainings and behavioral habits, and may be resulted in changes in the pattern and incidence of the injuries. In spite of these changes, injuries in the home environment have remained largely neglected or conceivably no systematic studies have been conducted on these cases. Another persisting worry is the fact that it is mainly underestimated in the shadow of traffic and work-environment injuries. In a study in Tehran (4) home environmental injuries is the second cause of trauma (38%) placed after traffic accident (45%) among children while females are at high risk of home-related injuries. The most common mechanism of injuries was falling. In a study conducted by Fazel et al. in Kashan (5) during a six-year period, 25.2% of …