OBJECTIVE To determine risky behaviors leading to unintentional injuries among Tehrani high school students in 2009. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out berween October and December 2009. Out of 237,300 (185151 governmental, 52149 non governmental) Tehrani high school students in both genders, 727 subjects were selected by multistage randomized sampling. Among 20 education dist...

Of 4736 poisoning incidents registered in the Poison Control Centre in Zagreb from 1985 to 1999, household chemicals caused 23%. In the group of cleaning products, 11% of poisoning incidents were caused by corrosives, 9% by liquid detergents and 4% by hypochlorite. Organic solvents caused 18% of household chemical poisonings; among them gasoline and thinners were the most frequent. Cosmetics we...

According to World Health Organization (WHO) report of 2004, unintentional poisoning has caused more than 346,000 deaths worldwide. The proportion of death that occurs because of poisoning is 91% in low-middle income countries [3,4]. With respect to World Income classification, Pakistan falls under lowmiddle income countries of the world [5]. In Pakistan, because of scarcity of poisoning survei...

OBJECTIVE To explore urban-rural differences in the mortality and hospital admission rates for unintentional injuries in the Republic of Ireland. DESIGN Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) in residents of urban and non-city areas (called rural areas) from all causes of unintentional injury were calculated using Central Statistics Office mortality data from 1980-2000. Hospital admission data ...

conclusions: I am not clear what “rapidly increasing potential for suicide misclassification” means? Suggest re-phrase, or alternatively delete the latter half of this sentence. This opening sentence now reads: “The official decline in the suicide rate between 1987 and 2000 may have been a partial artifact of misclassification of non-elderly suicides within unintentional poisoning mortality.” M...

Acute poisoning with medicines in Brazil has various causes, including a deficient national drug policy. The current study thus aimed to analyze socioeconomic variables, prescription characteristics, and forms of purchase or acquisition and storing of medicines by victims of acute unintentional poisoning. The data were collected during home visits to patients with a record of acute unintentiona...

OBJECTIVES This study describes 7813 childhood injuries in Shatin, Hong Kong. Supplementary analyses include developmental specificity of external causes and comparison with international childhood injury data. METHODS Children aged 0-15 attending the accident and emergency (A&E) department of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong were recruited for the study. Attendance records of partic...

To better understand risk factors and populations at risk of childhood fatalities, a review of all records of childhood deaths (≤19 years) between 2000 and 2010 from New Mexico's statewide medical examiner was conducted. Annually, 313-383 childhood deaths were investigated (3820 total). Males and American Indians were overrepresented (62% and 20.4% of deaths, respectively). The most common mann...