Living conditions in rural areas has been identified as potent risk factors for home accidents in preschool children. The aim of this study was to assess the home environmental risk factors and their relation to accidents among preschool children in Tanta and Assiut govern orates. A sample of 620 mothers (312& 308 mothers from Tanta & Assiut respectively) who brought their children under six ye...

Every year there are about 5500 fatal accidents in British homes (some two fifths of all fatal accidents). A further 2 2 million people have non-fatal accidents at home needing hospital treatment, and another 900 000 are dealt with by general practitioners. The cost of domestic accidents to the health service in England and Wales is about £300 000 a year.' Statistical information about non-fata...

objective head injury (hi) is the leading cause of mortality and life-long disability for infants. infants have different anatomical and pathophysiological brain structures from other age groups. this study surveys infant hi patients admitted to shahid beheshti hospital in kashan, iran from 2004–2010 to identify the causes of his in infants. materials and methods in this retrospective study, al...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the severity of sports injuries in relation to the severity of injuries due to other causes and in relation to type of sport, using generally applied measures of injury severity. SUBJECTS A total of 12403 patients, 4-50 years old, who were treated in the trauma department of the Groningen University Hospital for a sports injury, from January 1990 until January 1997. ME...

One third of accidents occur in the home, and the age group most at risk is the under 5s. Home appliances play a part in many of these accidents. In 1986, 27 accidents in which a tumble drier was involved were reported to the home accident surveillance system. Most of these injuries resulted from falls off or against the appliance, and only one burn, to a person leaning against the door, was re...

Data on home accidents for a 3-year period (2000-2002) were collected from health houses, health centres and hospitals involved in a home accident prevention programme in Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. A total of 15 402 accidents were registered, with a mortality rate of 1.3%. Accidents were more common in women than in men (52.1% versus 47.9%) and urban than rural areas (66.3% versus 33.7%)...

introduction: to the best of authors’ knowledge, to date, no systematic study has been carried out in shiraz to assess the extent, frequency, causes and major outcome(s) of home accidents in rural and urban areas of this city. additionally, no comparative study has been undertaken to evaluate the trend of these accidents over a period of time, and finally, the morbidity and mortality rates of t...