Open AccessPaediatric trauma care
Author(s) -
AB van As
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - Romanian
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/0189-6725.70409
Subject(s) - medicine , polytrauma , public health , disease , health care , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , surgery , nursing , pathology , economics , economic growth
Childhood trauma has become a major cause of mortality and morbidity, disability and socio-economic burden and it is expected by the World Health Organization (WHO) that by 2020 it will be the number 1 disease globally. The WHO and UNICEF have published their third World Report on Child Injury Prevention in December 2008.