The Epidemiology of Accidental Poisoning in an Urban Population II. Prevalence and Distribution of Poisoning

Wehrle, Paul F.; Day, Patrick; Whalen, John; Fitzgerald, John W.; Harris, Virginia Goddard

doi:10.2105/ajph.50.12.1925

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“…Although one small, uncontrolled study suggested products used In childhood poisonings were inappropriately stored (Jackson et al 1968), several studies have shown that storage practices and supervision were no more lax in families of poisoned children than those in which no poisoning had taken place (Beautrais et al 1981;Baltimore & Meyer 1968;Margolis 1971 ;Sobel 1970Sobel , 1969Sobel & Margolis 1965;Wehrle et al 1961). …”

Section: Storage Practices Child Resistant Packaging and Barriers Tomentioning

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Epidemiology of Drug Overdose in Children

Woolf

Lovejoy

1993

Drug Safety

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Childhood drug overdoses are a continuing important public health problem. Although drug overdoses are no longer the important cause of childhood mortality they once were, such poisonings account for highly frequent and unacceptable instances of childhood injuries. These poisonings exact a high cost from society. They result in many emergency department visits and hospitalisations, with the attendant indirect costs of suffering, parental anxiety, and lost days of work or school. Childhood drug overdoses are preventable; those children and families at highest risk show identifiable characteristics, and the medications which pose the greatest hazard to children have already been identified. These injuries divert expensive and scarce medical resources from society's other health problems. Thus, clinicians must do more to prevent childhood drug overdoses whenever possible.

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Section: Storage Practices Child Resistant Packaging and Barriers Tomentioning

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Epidemiology of Drug Overdose in Children

Woolf

Lovejoy

1993

Drug Safety

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“…mother more likely, to be pregnant or ivorking, and the father more likely -to be absent from the home. 21,22 Hence, at any time there is stress in the family-anything, that disrupts the usual family patterns--physicians should advise special precautions. The warnings hold for the family who is moving or visiting in another home.…”

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Preventing Poisoning Accidents in Children

1969

Clin Pediatr (Phila)

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“…We felt that neighbors who see each other frequently and informally may exert an important influence over one another. Using a study by Wehrle and associates (1), which suggested a repetitive pattern of ingestions of potentially toxic substances among children with a history of such ingestions, these discussions were developed among residents in neighborhoods with high incidence of accidental ingestions. Groups, usually limited to 12 women, gathered in a home or some other suitable, convenient meeting place.…”

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Analysis of Two Surveys Evaluating a Project to Reduce Accidental Poisoning among Children

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et al. 1967

Public Health Reports (1896-1970)

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A-VN ESTIMAI TED 1 million persoiis, the majority youngo clildlreni, accidenitally ingest potentially toxic substaiices eaclh year. The Public He(alth Service, tlrough its Nationial Clearinighlouse for Poison Control Centers, provides to more thaii 550 poison control centers informuation on the clhemistry and toxicity of various lhousehold products and medicines, along witlh recommendations for diagnosis and treatmnent wlheni tlhese substances are swvallowed, inhlaled, or absorbed. A reviewv of the clinical reports wlich the centers provide the Clearinghouse indicate that many of these accidenits resuilt from carelessness in the storace, handling, a1nd(l disposal of toxic and potentially toxic substances. Another contributinc factor is adults' apparenit lack of awareness abouit the lhazards involved whlen medicines and houselhold prodcucts are niot uised as intended or directed. Tlherefore a demonstration project in poison preventioni was desigyned to investigate methods aind teclhniques to prevent accidlental poisonings amllonlg preschlool clhildren and implemented in Ch1arleston1 Coiiiuty, S.C.

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The Epidemiology of Accidental Poisoning in an Urban Population II. Prevalence and Distribution of Poisoning

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Epidemiology of Drug Overdose in Children

Epidemiology of Drug Overdose in Children

Preventing Poisoning Accidents in Children

Analysis of Two Surveys Evaluating a Project to Reduce Accidental Poisoning among Children

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