@article{ref1,
title="Counting the costs of trauma: the need for a new paediatric injury severity score",
journal="Lancet child and adolescent health, The",
year="2021",
author="Sargent, William and Wild, Hannah and Mayhew, Emily and Wren, Sherry M.",
volume="5",
number="6",
pages="391-392",
abstract="While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate news headlines, little attention has been given to the announcement that the USA and UK will withdraw combat forces deployed to the so-called war on terror in Afghanistan. Protracted conflicts in the Middle East (eg, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan) and Africa (eg, Libya and the Sahel) continue unabated and under-reported, with well over 100 000 conflict-related deaths in 2020. The toll on populations, especially children, is a shameful signal lost in the noise of other world events. The number of children living in conflict zones has doubled since 1991, such that by 2017, nearly a fifth of the world's children--420 million--lived in conflict-affected areas. The UN report on children and armed conflict shows the annual number of children killed and injured in conflict has exceeded 10 000 since 2014, with a dramatic rise over the past 15 years...  Keywords: Violence <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2352-4642",
doi="10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00132-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00132-2"
}