Open AccessPrevalence and pattern of childhood injuries in Siliguri City, West Bengal, India
Author(s) -
Moumita Basak,
Romy Biswas,
Sharmistha Bhattacherjee,
Dilip Kumar Das,
Sabyasachi Mitra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_401_18
Subject(s) - medicine , injury prevention , socioeconomic status , cluster (spacecraft) , logistic regression , cross sectional study , poison control , cluster sampling , occupational safety and health , demography , environmental health , west bengal , pediatrics , population , socioeconomics , pathology , sociology , computer science , programming language
Children are vulnerable to injuries, and childhood injury is a complex phenomenon precipitated by a set of factors. In India, the magnitude and nature of childhood injury are not clearly known owing to the absence of a proper injury surveillance system. However, in recent days few studies demonstrated a substantially high burden of childhood injury.