Browse by subject "Unintentional injuries"
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A profile of Injury in Fiji: findings from a population-based injury surveillance system (TRIP-10)
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Background: Over 90% of injury deaths occur in low-and middle-income countries. However, the epidemiological profile of injuries in Pacific Islands has received little attention. We used a population-based-trauma registry to investigate the characteristics of all injuries in Viti Levu, Fiji.
Method: The Fiji Injury Surveillance in Hospitals (FISH) database prospectively collected data on all injury-related deaths and primary admissions to hospital (≥12 hours stay) in Viti Levu during 12 months commencing October 2005.
Results: The 2167 injury-related deaths and hospitalisations corresponded to an annual incidence rate of 333 per 100,000, with males accounting for twice as many cases as females. Almost 80% of injuries involved people aged less than 45 years, and 74% were deemed unintentional. There were 244 fatalities (71% died before admission) and 1994 hospitalisations corresponding to crude annual rates of 37.5 per 100,000 and 306 per 100,000 respectively. The leading cause of fatal injury was road traffic injury (29%) and the equivalent for injury admissions was falls (30%). The commonest type of injury resulting in death and admission to hospital was asphyxia and fractures respectively. Alcohol use was documented as a contributing factor in 13% of deaths and 12% of admissions. In general, indigenous Fijians had higher rates of injury admission, especially for interpersonal violence, while those of Indian ethnicity had higher rates of fatality, especially from suicide.
Conclusions: Injury is an important public health problem that disproportionately affects young males in Fiji, with a high proportion of deaths prior to hospital presentation. This study highlights key areas requiring priority attention to reduce the burden of potentially life-threatening injuries in Fiji.
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| Author | Iris Wainiqolo, Berlin Kafoa, Bridget Kool, Josephine Herman, Eddie McCaig and Shanthi Ameratunga |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | Injuries Epidemiology Injury surveillance Fiji |
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Child Poverty, Unintentional Injuries and Food Borne Illness: Are low-Income Children at Greater Risk?
The purpose of this report is to show that existing data and research, however incomplete, strongly suggest that low-income children are at greater risk than other children from unintentional injuries and food borne illness.
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| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Childhood Unintentional Injuries: Need for a Community-Based Home Injury Risk Assessments in Pakistan
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Background. A substantial proportion of the annual 875,000 childhood unintentional injury deaths occur in the home. Very few printed tools are available in South Asia for disseminating home injury prevention information. Methods. Three tools were planned: an injury hazard assessment tool appropriate for a developing country setting, an educational pamphlet highlighting strategies for reducing home injury hazards, and an in-home safety tutorial program to be delivered by a trained community health worker. Results. The three tools were successfully developed. Two intervention neighborhoods in Karachi, Pakistan, were mapped. The tools were pretested in this local setting and are now ready for pilot testing in an intervention study. Conclusion. Planning for an innovative, community-based pilot study takes considerable time and effort in a low-income setting like Pakistan. The primary outcome of the pre-testing phase of the study was the development of three important tools geared for low-income housing communities in Pakistan.
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| Author | Adnan A. Hyder,1 Aruna Chandran,1 Uzma Rahim Khan,2 Nukhba Zia,2 Cheng-Ming Huang,1 Sarah Stewart de Ramirez,1 and Junaid Razzak2 |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Childhood Unintentional Injury Study: Multisite Surveillance Data
This paper aimed to analyse the epidemiology of childhood unintentional injuries. The study looked at data from urban hospitals in 5 low and middle income countries (LMICs): Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Malaysia and Pakistan.
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| Author | Siran He, BMed, MSPH, Jeffrey C. Lunnen, MS, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, MB BChir, MPH, Amar-Singh, MRCP, MSc, Nukhba Zia, MB BS, MPH, and Adnan A. Hyder, MD, PhD, MPH |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health 101 (second edition): Chapter 13: Unintentional Injuries
This slideshare presentation covers the key points in Chapter 13: Unintentional Injuries in Global Health 101 (second edition).
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| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Injury prevention and the attainment of child and adolescent health
In December 2008, WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund published the first World report on child injury prevention,1 calling attention to the problem internationally. The report focused on the five leading causes of child injury deaths – road traffic injuries, drowning, poisoning, burns and falls – and set out what can be done to prevent these injuries. This article expands on the report’s arguments that child injuries must be integrated into child health initiatives and proposes some initial steps for achieving this integration.
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| Author | Alison Harvey, Elizabeth Towner, Margie Peden, Hamid Soori & Kidist Bartolomeos |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Prevention of Unintentional Injuries: A Global Role for Pediatricians
The purpose of this brief article is to encourage more pediatricians to be active in the field of injury prevention and cooperate with other professionals to achieve the ultimate goal of a “Safe World for Our Children.”
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| Author | Michael E. Höllwarth, Univ. Prof. Dr |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | Injury prevention childhood unintentional injuries injury statistics |
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Reducing the global burden of childhood unintentional injuries
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Among 1–19-year olds, unintentional injuries accounted for 12% of 5.1 million global deaths from injuries in 2010. Despite this high burden, childhood injuries have not received much attention in global health. This paper describes the major causes of deaths from childhood unintentional injuries and provides a review of interventions for reducing this burden. About 627?741 deaths were due to unintentional injuries in 2010 among 1–19-year olds. The proportionate mortality increased with age—from 12.6% among 1–4-year olds to 28.8% among 15–19-year olds. Deaths from Western sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia accounted for more than 50% of all deaths. Rates in these regions are 68.0 and 36.4 per 100?000 population, respectively, compared to 6.4 in Western Europe. Road traffic injuries (RTI) are the commonest cause of death, followed by deaths from drowning, burns and falls. Male children are more predisposed to unintentional injuries except for burns which occur more frequently among females in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Effective solutions exist—including barriers for preventing drowning; safer stoves for burns; child restraint systems for RTI—but the effectiveness of these measures need to be rigorously tested in LMICs. The general lack of a coordinated global response to the burden of childhood unintentional injuries is of concern. The global community must create stronger coalitions and national or local plans for action. Death rates for this paper may have been underestimated, and there is need for longitudinal studies to accurately measure the impact of injuries in LMICs.
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| Author | Olakunle Alonge and Adnan A Hyder |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Global Burden of Unintentional Injuries and an Agenda for Progress
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According to the World Health Organization, unintentional injuries were responsible for over 3.9 million deaths and over 138 million disability-adjusted life-years in 2004, with over 90% of those occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). This paper utilizes the year 2004 World Health Organization Global Burden of Disease Study estimates to illustrate the global and regional burden of unintentional injuries and injury rates, stratified by cause, region, age, and gender. The worldwide rate of unintentional injuries is 61 per 100,000 population per year. Overall, road traffic injuries make up the largest proportion of unintentional injury deaths (33%). When standardized per 100,000 population, the death rate is nearly double in LMIC versus high-income countries (65 vs. 35 per 100,000), and the rate of disability-adjusted life-years is more than triple in LMIC (2,398 vs. 774 per 100,000). This paper calls for more action around 5 core areas that need research investments and capacity development, particularly in LMIC: 1) improving injury data collection, 2) defining the epidemiology of unintentional injuries, 3) estimating the costs of injuries, 4) understanding public perceptions about injury causation, and 5) engaging with policy makers to improve injury prevention and control.
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| Author | Aruna Chandran, Adnan A. Hyder and Corinne Peek-Asa |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | accidental falls burns developing countries drowning motor vehicles poisoning wounds Injuries |
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The WHO Europe: Injuries and inequities: Guidance for addressing inequities in unintentional injuries
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This policy guidance aims to support national, regional and local policy-makers in Europe to prepare, implement and follow up policy actions and interventions to reduce inequities in unintentional injuries. Unintentional injuries, including road traffic injuries, falls, burns, drownings and poisonings still constitute a major public health problem, killing almost half a million people in the WHO European Region each year and causing many more cases of disability. The burden of unintentional injuries is unevenly distributed in the WHO European Region. Steep social gradients for death and morbidity exist across and within countries. Reducing health inequities is a key strategic objective of Health 2020 – the European policy framework for health and well-being endorsed by the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region in 2012. This guide seeks to assist European policy-makers in contributing to achieving the objectives of Health 2020 in a practical way. It draws on key evidence, including from the WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Review of social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European Region. It sets out options and practical methods to reduce the level and unequal distribution of unintentional injuries in Europe, through approaches that address the social determinants of unintended injuries and the related health, social and economic consequences.
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| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
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The WHO: Violence and Injury Prevention
This section of the WHO website provides information on advocacy events, reports, policies survices, data and more related to preventing violence and injury.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
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Unintentional Injuries: Indicators on children and youth
This document was produced by Child Trends Data Bank in November 2012 (Updated October 2014).
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Unintentional injuries in the European Region: Promoting safety and equity
In this presentation:
• Overview of injuries in Europe
• Unintentional injuries in children
– Burden
– A major source of inequities
• The response
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| Author | Francesca Racioppi Dinesh Sethi |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | WHO WHO Regional Office for Europe |
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Unintentional Injuries: Magnitude, Prevention, and Control
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The World Health Organization estimates injuries accounted for more than 5 million deaths in 2004, significantly impacting the global burden of disease. Nearly 3.9 million of these deaths were due to unintentional injury, a cause also responsible for more than 138 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost in the same year. More than 90% of the DALYs lost occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), highlighting the disproportionate burden that injuries place on developing countries. This article examines the health and social impact of injury, injury data availability, and injury prevention interventions. By proposing initiatives to minimize the magnitude of death and disability due to unintentional injuries, particularly in LMICs, this review serves as a call to action for further investment in injury surveillance, prevention interventions, and health systems strengthening.
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| Author | Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Adnan A. Hyder, Hadley K. Herbert, and Kent Stevens |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Unintentional injury mortality in India, 2005: Nationally representative mortality survey of 1.1 million homes
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Background: Unintentional injuries are an important cause of death in India. However, no reliable nationallyrepresentative estimates of unintentional injury deaths are available. Thus, we examined unintentional injury deaths in a nationally representative mortality survey.
Methods: Trained field staff interviewed a living relative of those who had died during 2001-03. The verbal autopsy reports were sent to two of the130 trained physicians, who independently assigned an ICD-10 code to each death. Discrepancies were resolved through reconciliation and adjudication. Proportionate cause specific mortality was used to produce national unintentional injury mortality estimates based on United Nations population and deathestimates.
Results: In 2005, unintentional injury caused 648 000 deaths (7% of all deaths; 58/100 000 population). Unintentional injury mortality rates were higher among males than females, and in rural versus urban areas. Road traffic injuries (185 000 deaths; 29% of all unintentional injury deaths), falls (160 000 deaths, 25%) and drowning (73000 deaths, 11%) were the three leading causes of unintentional injury mortality, with fire-related injury causing 5% of these deaths. The highest unintentional mortality rates were in those aged 70years or older (410/100 000).
Conclusions: These direct estimates of unintentional injury deaths in India (0.6 million) are lower than WHO indirect estimates (0.8 million), but double the estimates which rely on police reports (0.3 million). Importantly, they revise upward the mortality due to falls, particularly in the elderly, and revise downward mortality due to fires. Ongoing monitoring of injury mortality will enable development of evidence based injury prevention programs.
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| Author | Jagnoor Jagnoor, Wilson Suraweera , Lisa Keay, Rebecca Q Ivers, JS Thakur , Prabhat Jha1 |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | Unintentional-injuries Mortality Verbal autopsy india |
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Video Lecture_ Promoting Safety and Preventing Unintentional Injuries
This is a video lecture on Promoting Safety and Preventing Unintentional Injuries. It is 33 minutes 16 seconds long and was published on Feb 13, 2014.
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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World report on child injury prevention
Th e overall aims of the report are:
- to raise awareness about the magnitude, risk factors and impacts of child injuries globally
- to draw attention to the preventability of child injuries and present what is known about the eff ectiveness of intervention strategies
- to make recommendations that can be implemented by all countries to reduce child injuries eff ectively
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| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | WHO UNICEF |
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World Report on Child Injury Prevention: An Ignored Component of Child Survival!
The report promotes a set of seven overarching recommendations to address child injury:
- Integrate child injury prevention into comprehensive approach to child health and development
- Develop and implement child-injury prevention policy and plan of action
- Implement specific actions to prevent and control child injuries
- Strengthen health systems to address child injuries
- Enhance quality and quantity of data for child injury prevention
- Define priorities for research
- Raise awareness of, and target investments towards child-injury prevention
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| Author | VIPIN M VASHISHTHA |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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