نتایج جستجو برای: home injuries

تعداد نتایج: 249226  

Journal: :Jornal de pediatria 2005
Carlos E N Paes Vera L V Gaspar

OBJECTIVE To review the characteristics of unintentional injuries and their impact on children and adolescents. SOURCES OF DATA Articles published between 2000 and 2005 in the MEDLINE, EBSCO, Proquest, SciELO, BVS and Google Scholar databases were selected. The authors used the keywords unintentional injuries, injuries, safe home, burns, falls, drowning, scorpions, snakes, poisoning, child, a...

Journal: :American journal of industrial medicine 1999
J D Meyer C Muntaner

BACKGROUND Home health services represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the US economy. Home health care workers (HHCWs) might be expected to have a high incidence and increased severity of injury because of inherent difficulty in control over their work environment, and the limited amount of research on injuries in home health care appears to support this hypothesis. METHODS Using d...

Journal: :Accident; analysis and prevention 2013
Michael D Keall Philippa Howden-Chapman Michael G Baker Venugopal Kamalesh Malcolm Cunningham Chris Cunningham Jagadish Guria Robert Draper Pounamu Skelton

Home injuries are a substantial health burden worldwide, with the home setting being at least as important as the road for injury. Focusing on common injury hazards presented by the home environment, we sought to examine the justification for significant expenditure on safety-related repairs to the housing stock. Trained inspectors assessed 961 New Zealand houses for injury hazards. Using admin...

Journal: :Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2009
Meredeth A Rowe Annette Kelly Claydell Horne Steve Lane Judy Campbell Brandy Lehman Chad Phipps Meredith Keller Andrea Pe Benito

BACKGROUND Nighttime activity, a common occurrence in persons with dementia, increases the risk for injury and unattended home exits and impairs the sleep patterns of caregivers. Technology is needed that will alert caregivers of nighttime activity in persons with dementia to help prevent injuries and unattended exits. METHODS As part of a product development grant, a controlled pilot study w...

Journal: :Occupational and environmental medicine 1995
Y Ono M Lagerström M Hagberg A Lindén B Malker

OBJECTIVES To describe the nationwide occurrence of work related musculoskeletal injuries among all home care service workers in Sweden, and to identify relative risks and risk factors of the injuries. METHODS The study was based on work related injuries reported to the Swedish occupational injury information system in 1990-1. The work related musculoskeletal injuries were divided into overex...

Journal: :Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit 2012
R S H Eldosoky

Injuries to children arising from home accidents are an increasing community health concern. The aim of this cross-sectional study in Qalubeya governorate, Egypt was to measure the incidence and types of home injuries affecting rural children aged up to 12 years and to assess their mothers' knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) about first aid and its associated factors. An interview questio...

Journal: :Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases 2016
William G Carlos Mary S Baker Katie A McPherson Gabriel T Bosslet Rajiv Sood Alexia M Torke

BACKGROUND Home oxygen therapy is a mainstay of treatment for patients with various cardiopulmonary diseases. In spite of warnings against smoking while using home oxygen, many patients sustain burn injuries. OBJECTIVES We aimed to quantify the morbidity and mortality of such patients admitted to our regional burn unit over a 6-year period. METHODS A retrospective chart review of all patien...

2013
Rebecca Steinbach Phil Edwards Chris Grundy

BACKGROUND Both road safety campaigns and epidemiological research into social differences in road traffic injury risk often assume that road traffic injuries occur close to home. While previous work has examined distance from home to site of collision for child pedestrians in local areas, less is known about the geographic distribution of road traffic injuries from other modes. This study expl...

Journal: :Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention 1995
R A Lyons S V Lo M Heaven B N Littlepage

OBJECTIVE To assess the usefulness of a centralised injury database in monitoring progress towards nationally set health targets for the reduction of childhood injuries. SETTING West Glamorgan County, Wales. METHODS Analysis was undertaken of data held in the West Glamorgan injury database which amalgamates population data with data from the three hospital units covering a population of 370...

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