Overview of Global Childhood Injury Morbidity and Mortality Fact Sheet (2013)

Grace's Note: Safe Kids World Wide provides nice data on deaths in children from unintentional injuries.  Another good PDF to compare it to is the Safe Kids Childhood Injury Morbidity and Mortality Fact Sheet for the US.  Cars are the big killer in the US and around the world. 

 Put your seat belt on! Use your car seats.  Get those kids water safe! Keep the poisons and medications up and away!  Stop falling! Put those babies "back" to sleep. Check your smoke detector. Keep the guns locked up. 
Whoops that last one is not on the list.  Thanks NRA. Not politically correct.

 I am losing my mommy voice from screeching so much.   
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Source:  Overview of Global Childhood Injury Morbidity and Mortality Fact Sheet (2013)  

Overview

•   An estimated 793,000 children ages 19 and under died from unintentional injuries in 2008.1
  
•   In 2008, among children ages 19 and under, there were an estimated:1
  
  •   218,000 road traffic‐related deaths
    
  •   135,000 drowning‐related deaths
    
  •   61,000 fire‐related deaths
    
  •   45,000 fall‐related deaths
    
  •   29,000 poison‐related deaths
    
•   Among children ages 5 to 14, more than a quarter of all deaths are a result of injury‐related
  causes.2
  
•   More than 95% of all injury deaths in children occur in low‐income and middle‐income
  countries.3
  2004 Global Unintentional Injury Death Rates by Age Group and Country Income Level (Ages 19 and Under, Estimated)3
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  Child Passenger Safety Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among children ages 15 to 19 and the second leading cause of death among children ages 5 to 14.3 4

  
  
  

  Drowning  Children under 5 years of age have the highest drowning death rates.5
    In high‐income countries, most child drowning deaths occur in recreational settings such as a swimming pool.3 6  In low‐ and middle‐income countries, most child drowning deaths occur in open bodies of water or water collection systems (e.g., ditches) where children play, wash, collect water or travel.3

  
  

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    Fire/burn

    
    
    •   Infants have the highest rate of burn‐related death.3
      
    •   In a study of four low‐income countries (Bangladesh, Columbia, Egypt and Pakistan), 49 percent of children with burn‐related injuries suffered some form of disability and 8 percent had permanent disability.3
      
    •   Among children, burns most frequently occur in the home (particularly the kitchen).3
      
    •   In Africa and many countries in South‐Asia, burns among children have become a major public health issue.7
      Falls
      
    •   Falls are the leading cause of traumatic brain injury for young children.3
      
    •   In high‐income countries, common objects from which children fall include furniture, car seats, stairs and playground equipment.3
      
    •   In several low‐income countries, some common objects from which children fall include stairways, beds, and roofs.3
      
    •   A recent study done in India found that among children under age 5, falls were the leading cause
      of injury‐related mortality in urban areas. One quarter of all fall‐related deaths in the study occurred from building structures.8
      Poisoning
      
      •   Infants have the highest rate of poisoning death in low‐ and middle‐income countries whereas children ages 15 to 19 have the highest rate of poisoning death in high‐income countries.3
        
      •   In middle‐ and high‐income countries, ingestion of medicine is the most common cause of
        nonfatal poisonings among children.3
        
      •   In low‐income countries, ingestion of fuels used for cooking, heating or lighting (such as paraffin
        oil) is the most common cause of poisoning among children.3 9