TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Epidemiology of unintentional child injuries in the South-East Asia Region: a systematic review
JO  - International journal of injury control and safety promotion
A1  - Pant, Puspa Raj
A1  - Towner, Elizabeth M. L.
A1  - Pilkington, Paul
A1  - Ellis, Matthew
SP  - 24
EP  - 32
VL  - 22
IS  - 1
N2  - All the 11 members of the South-East Asia Region (SEAR) of the World Health Organization are categorised as low- and middle-income countries. This region has over a quarter of the world's total population but comprises about one-third of the world's unintentional injury-related deaths.     There is a paucity of good-quality mortality and morbidity data from most of these countries. This is the first systematic review of community-based surveys on child injuries that summarises evidence from child injury studies from the SEAR countries.     The included papers reported varying estimates of overall non-fatal unintentional injury rates across the countries, from 15/1000 children in Thailand to as high as 342/1000 children in India. The fatal injury rates were also found to be varying.     This review revealed a need for strengthening child injury research using standard methodologies across the region and for promoting the dissemination of the results.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1745-7300
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2013.842594
ID  - ref1
ER  -