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FATAL ACCIDENTS TO CHILDREN: IMPLICATIONS FOR PREVENTION
Author(s) -
Hurst John,
Ellis M.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb99278.x
Subject(s) - injury prevention , medical emergency , suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , environmental health , forensic engineering , engineering , pathology
Efforts to prevent childhood accidents should be directed at the causes of serious injury and death, rather than at the causes of the vast number of emergency department trivial injuries. This paper analyses fatal accidents, and suggests areas in which efforts at prevention may be effective. It emphasizes the importance of motor car accidents, and drowning accidents in childhood.