School accidents during a three school-years period in a swedish municipality

Schelp, Lothar; Ekman, Robert; Fahl, I.

doi:10.1016/s0033-3506(05)80284-7

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“…This confirms the observations made by Schelp et al [8], that there was a peak in the school break accidents among 7-12 year old pupils, whereas school sport accidents were the most frequent cause among 13-19-year-old patients.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Other studies confirm these observations, although there were different age subgroups in some studies. The peak mainly occurred at the beginning of puberty [6,8,10,12,20].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are data on school systems with different cultures or organizations [1][2][3][4]. Many publications have provided age-and genderrelated data [5][6][7], and the risk associated with school sporting accidents has been well assessed [8][9][10]. Only a few authors have focused on certain aspects, such as the size of the school, injuries caused by classmates, or injury treatment efforts [4,11,12] and injury prevention [13][14][15].…”

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confidence: 99%

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School-related injuries: a retrospective 5-year evaluation

Kraus

Horas²,

Szalay

et al. 2010

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Other studies confirm these observations, although there were different age subgroups in some studies. The peak mainly occurred at the beginning of puberty [6,8,10,12,20].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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School-related injuries: a retrospective 5-year evaluation

Kraus

Horas²,

Szalay

et al. 2010

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg

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“…The literature on injuries is frequently focused on childhood injuries or school-aged injuries in general, but also on some specific types as the road traffic injuries or the sport related injuries and; in comparison with this literature, few papers treat of the school-related injuries and some of these existing papers are really old [5]- [8]. Yet, time dedicated to school years is important in child life.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Schelp [8] and colleagues have reported, two decades ago, that school accidents account for 10 to 30% of all accidents among school pupils. In 2003, in China, Li [11] and colleagues have found that injuries at school account for nearly a quarter of the places of injuries.…”

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Epidemiology of School-Related Injuries in Belgium. A Better Knowledge for a Better Prevention

Senterre¹,

Dramaix²,

Lévêque³

2014

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The landmark Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children around the World have right to safe environment. In Belgium, as in many countries, children spend, on average, 4.5 weekdays at school, during nearly 8 hours per day. Studies have shown that, the risk of school-related injury exceeds the risk during leisure time. Literature reports that school accidents account for 10 to 30% of all accidents among pupils. Despite that, few papers treat of the school-related injuries. Consequently, based on 1540 accidents forms from an insurance company, injury places, mechanisms involved, body parts injured and nature of injuries were described. Head injuries, upper and lower limbs injuries were investigated in more details. Pearson's chi-square test was used to assess the relationships between the variables and multivariate logistic regression models were used to study the three specific types of injuries cited above. Gender ratio (M/F) was equal to 1.6 with 25.9% of children under 6 years, 29.4% of 6 -9 years, 26.9% of 10 -12 years and 17.8% from 13 years or more. The major places of injuries were the playground (56.9%) and the physical education (19.7%). Falls were observed in 52.1% of cases and contacts were reported in 24.3%. The head injuries account for 40.6%, the upper limbs for 32.0% and the lower limbs injuries for 20.2%. The bruises and the scratches were observed in 23.8% and the wounds in 21.5%. Fractures were reported in 16.1%. In conclusion, having a routine access to the data from the insurance companies could be an important source of information for an injury surveillance system in which the school injuries will be included. Taking into account this data will require an awareness of all the concerned persons about the relevance of such a system and a harmonization of the accidental forms.

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The 'WHO Safe Communities' model for the prevention of injury in whole populations

Spinks

Turner

Nixon

et al. 2005

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Evidence suggests the WHO Safe Communities model is effective in reducing injuries in whole populations. However, important methodological limitations exist in all studies from which evidence can be obtained. A lack of reported detail makes it unclear which factors facilitate or hinder a programme's success, and makes uncertain, whether the success of any particular application of the model is necessarily replicable in other communities. In evaluated programmes that did not report significant decreases in injury rates, this lack of information makes it difficult to distinguish between evidence of no effect of the model, or no evidence of effect. The four countries that have evaluated their Safe Communities with a sufficiently rigorous study design have higher economic wealth and health standards and lower injury rates than much of the world. No evaluations were available from other parts of the world, despite the designation of WHO Safe Communities in countries such as South Africa, Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, Canada, UK and USA. Generalisation of results of studies conducted in just four countries, to the international population needs to be done with caution. There is a need for more high-quality, methodologically strong evaluations of the model in a range of diverse communities and detailed reporting of implementation processes.

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School accidents during a three school-years period in a swedish municipality

Cited by 34 publications

References 9 publications

School-related injuries: a retrospective 5-year evaluation

School-related injuries: a retrospective 5-year evaluation

Epidemiology of School-Related Injuries in Belgium. A Better Knowledge for a Better Prevention

The 'WHO Safe Communities' model for the prevention of injury in whole populations

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