Transport-related fatalities and injuries leading to hospitalisation in pre-school children


Autoria(s): Siskind, Victor
Data(s)

14/08/2015

Resumo

Pre-school children grow and develop rapidly with age and their changing capabilities are reflected in the ways in which they are injured. Using coded and textual descriptions of transport-related injuries in children under five years of age from the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) this paper profiles the modes of such injuries by single year of age. The QISU collects information on all injury presentations to emergency department in hospitals throughout Queensland using both coded information and textual description. Almost all transport-related injuries in children under one year are due to motor vehicle crashes but these become proportionately less common thereafter, while injuries while cycling become proportionately more common with age. Slow-speed vehicle runovers peak at age one year but occur at all ages in the range. Bicycle-related fatalities are rare in this age group. If bicycle-related injuries are excluded, the profiles of fatal and non-fatal injuries are broadly similar. Comparison with a Queensland hospital series suggests that these results are broadly representative.

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/95236/

Publicador

Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS)

Relação

http://acrs.org.au/journals/august-vol-26-no-3/

Siskind, Victor (2015) Transport-related fatalities and injuries leading to hospitalisation in pre-school children. Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 26(3), pp. 33-37.

Fonte

Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety - Qld (CARRS-Q); Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation; School of Psychology & Counselling

Palavras-Chave #Injuries #Hospitalisation #Pre-school children #Transport-related injuries
Tipo

Journal Article