TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Counting the costs of trauma: the need for a new paediatric injury severity score
JO  - Lancet child and adolescent health, The
A1  - Sargent, William
A1  - Wild, Hannah
A1  - Mayhew, Emily
A1  - Wren, Sherry M.
SP  - 391
EP  - 392
VL  - 5
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2352-4642
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00132-2
ID  - ref1
ER  -