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Child Injury Prevention

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Injuries are among the leading causes of child morbidity and mortality worldwide [1]. Because injuries typically are incurred by healthy children engaging in daily activities, they can be particularly devastating to the injured child and his or her family, disrupting otherwise mentally and physically healthy lives with tragic short- and long-term consequences. Despite the implication of the lay term “accident”, injuries are preventable. The global community of scholars and practitioners is slowly creating, discovering, and implementing programs to reduce the burden of injury on the world’s youth. This volume contributes to those objectives. [1...]

DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-906980-49-2

Author: David C. Schwebel (Ed.)

Language: English

Topic: Injury Epidemiology and Prevention

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Funders: World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins University, Michael Smith Health Research BC, ZonMw, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fogarty International Center

OpenAlex ID: W2605658032

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