Poisoning is the fifth leading cause of unintentional injuries among young children. Agents most commonly ingested by young children include medicines, cleaning substances, hydrocarbons, pesticides and cosmetics. Children with less educated fathers, living in more crowded conditions and from lower income families are more predisposed to unintentional poisoning. Unsafe storage of medicines, chem...

Human interfaces are usually designed to respond only to intentional human behaviors. However, humans show unintentional behaviors as well. They can convey useful information to realize user-friendly human interfaces. This paper presents two human interface systems using both types of behaviors: a gesture-based interface and an intelligent wheelchair. In the rst system, only intentional hand mo...

Currently, traffic accidents (TAs) cause the death of more than one million people throughout the world every year,1 causing families to suffer and increasing the costs of healthcare and social security systems.2 For the healthcare sector, TAs are worrisome due to their numbers, their impact on mortality and morbidity (because they affect young age groups with a high number of years of potentia...

background and objective: recently, childhood poisoning has become one of the most pressing concerns in injury epidemiology. the aim of this study is to identify the main risk factors in unintentional childhood poisoning. materials and methods: the present study is individual method case-control based in a hospital (case; n=140, control; n=280) in tehran 1392. cases with controls are matched on...