Open AccessInjury and its associated factors among residents of an urban slum during the festival month in South India: A community-based survey
Author(s) -
Vengatesan Venugopal,
Pruthu Thekkur,
Kalaiselvi Selvaraj,
Swaroop Kumar Sahu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1105_20
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , accidental , injury prevention , population , environmental health , cross sectional study , poison control , poisson regression , occupational safety and health , demography , physics , pathology , sociology , acoustics , optics
Injury morbidity and mortality have been steadily increasing in both developed and developing countries including India. The current study tried to assess the incidence of injury and identify the risk factors associated with injuries during the festival month in a selected urban area in Puducherry.