[PDF] Top 20 Understanding unintentional childhood home injuries: pilot surveillance data from Karachi, Pakistan

... our pilot surveillance data dog bites is the second common home injury presenting to the ...bites from stray dogs which are a common sight in Karachi due to lack of effective dog ... See full document

... community-based pilot study takes considerable time and effort in a low-income setting like ...proposed pilot study and provides an initial report of the first ...in Pakistan: (1) an assessment tool ... See full document

... with injuries and other musculoskeletal com- plaints ...report, unintentional injuries kill approximately 830,000 children every year, with more than 95% of those occurring in LMICs ...global ... See full document

... of unintentional injuries, such as child care centers to promote training and assistance to prevent injuries ...that home safety interventions are also associated with reduction in the ... See full document

... eyes from low energy flying fragments (SAA HB9-1994). Many eye injuries, however, are caused by side impact, (Arotti, 1995; Henderson, 1991; Dannenberg et al, ...matter from other workers may pass ... See full document

... helmet use by both children and their parents. This range of sources of data allowed greater confidence in the results. Another study of bicycle helmet promotion, this time targeted at preschool children, used ... See full document

... in Pakistan is provided by both government and private sectors; according to estimates, 70% of care is provided by private health care providers [22] This is likely to be quite the opposite for emergency care, ... See full document

... city in Sweden demonstrated a 23% decrease in all injury morbidity rates at the time the community coalition was active [60]. Motala, also a city in Sweden, demonstrated a 13% reduction in injury rates [61]. Harstad (a ... See full document

... in unintentional injuries. Unintentional injuries, including road traffic injuries, falls, burns, drownings and poisonings still constitute a major public health problem, killing almost ... See full document

... five from a serious fall may result in acquired disabilities which lead to high education and social care costs as well as loss of earnings to families and benefit costs to the ... See full document

... The Pakistan National Emergency Departments Surveil- lance (Pak-NEDS) was a pilot active surveillance con- ducted in seven major tertiary care emergency departments in six main cities of ... See full document

... Background: Childhood injuries are increasingly getting the attention of public health experts following WHO’s report on global burden of ...diseases. Surveillance is an important component of ... See full document

... [4,6,7]. Surveillance information from these departments can be used to assess the patterns of dis- ease and acute health ...of injuries requiring medical atten- tion in the community; and for ... See full document

... Assembly, injuries are a major threat to child survival and ...However, injuries are a frequently neglected public health problem, with signi fi cant consequences in terms of mortality, morbidity, quality of ... See full document

... NEISS data were available for comparison of overall morbidity, however, each of the CMH cases presented demonstrates the severity of these injuries in individual pain and ... See full document

... ¾ Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of rib fractures, a marker of severe injury. In a 1994 Journal of Trauma article with 5 ½ years of data, 12% of those with rib fractures died, 32% had a hemothorax ... See full document

... evident from present and other literature that injury related to fall is among the commonest domestic injuries, because of their smooth and slippery floor, marbles, stairs and ceilings ...had ... See full document

... ranging from 1 to 3; major injury, scores ranging from 4 to 8; and severe injury, scores above 9 ...ambulance data was considered as dead. The number of unique deaths and injuries were then ... See full document

... good communication between organisations and target audiences, involving local people and appropriate target- ing of the population. At the physical or environmental level facilitators included stable and child friendly ... See full document

... fall injuries within the wider community. Since minor injuries may be managed at home or by general practitioners, these mild severity falls may have been under-reported in the tertiary care ... See full document