Open Access<p>Incidence, Risk and Protective Factors for Unintentional, Nonfatal, Fall-Related Injuries at Home: A Community-Based Household Survey from Ujjain, India</p>
Author(s) -
Ashish Pathak,
Nitin Agarwal,
Love Mehra,
Aditya Mathur,
Vishal Diwan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-9927
DOI - 10.2147/phmt.s242173
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , odds ratio , confidence interval , pediatrics , cross sectional study , demography , physics , pathology , sociology , optics
Childhood injury is an increasing public health burden and considered a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. In this study, we identified the distribution and risk factors for fall-related child injuries at home in Ujjain, India.