TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Medically attended nonfatal injuries among preschool-age children: national estimates
JO  - American journal of preventive medicine
A1  - Fingerhut, Lois A.
A1  - Overpeck, Mary D.
A1  - Kogan, M. D.
SP  - 99
EP  - 104
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
N2  - We used data from the 1991 Longitudinal Follow-up to the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey to examine cumulative risk of injury among children from birth to three years old and to provide national-level cause-specific estimates of medically attended nonfatal injuries for this age group. Almost 25% of the 8,145 children reportedly received care for an injury between birth and three years old. Among the children with injuries, 25.4% reportedly had more than one medically attended injury. Risk of reported injury was higher for boys and upper level socioeconomic groups. Falls were the most frequently reported injury (51%), followed by burns (11.7%), striking or cutting injuries (9.8%), poisonings (9.8%), and injuries from devices not intended for the child's use (7.9%). Nonfatal injuries for preschool-age children present a pattern strikingly different from that of fatal injuries among this age group, and the need for this data is important in targeting prevention strategies.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0749-3797
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -