Do Keep Her Child By Her Grandparents Would Reduce The Risk Of Injury

Give her child to keep his grandparents rather than another type of care as the nurse or crib, reduces the risk of injury in children. According to researchers at Johns Hopskins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the risk of childhood injuries are also higher among those whose parents are not married, or in those whose fathers do not live in the house.

Published in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, the study is one of the first to examine the relationship between injury rates of children and the custody of grandparents. It highlights a reduced rate of injury when the child is kept at the grandparents rather than in a nursery or with a nanny.

Researchers from Johns Hopskins Bloomberg School of Public Health also showed that the rate of injury is influenced by family type in which the child develops (without consideration of income). Unmarried parents or a father away from home increases the rate of childhood injury.

This study focused on analyzing data collected during the National Evaluation of the Healthy Steps for Young Children Program, based on more than 5,500 newborns followed for 30 to 33 months in 15 U.S.

Childhood Injury

In this issue, Birken and coauthors document a substantial decline from 1971 to 1998 until now, the rate of unintentional injury among Canadian children living in urban areas 1. They also determine that, in the case of these injuries, the difference in rates among rich children and poor children has fortunately not widened. Nevertheless, poor children are still twice as likely as those of affluent families to die from unintentional injuries. It takes at least acknowledge the percentage of this stratum that includes groups (eg., First Nations and refugee children) and admit that the issue deserves more thorough it is possible to do in this editorial .

The gap between mortality rates due to injury among children rich and poor children can cause moral outrage, but keep some of this outrage to the overall performance of Canada at the Injury Control children. In the second UNICEF Innocent Report, which focuses on infant mortality by type of injury, Canada ranks 18th among 26 OECD countries for deaths caused by intentional and unintentional injuries in children 1 to 14 years during the period from 1991 to 1992. Canada ranked well below the world leaders that are the countries of Scandinavia, which is not surprising, but he also scored lower than Spain, Greece and Australia. If Canada had the same results as Sweden, which ranked first, 2665 children would be alive today. Read more »

Signs Of Non-accidental Injury

These criteria are intended to help veterinarians to distinguish between accidental injuries and injuries deliberately inflicted on animals. In general, a combination of factors arouse suspicion, as elements of the historical customer behavior, other family members or of the animal and specific types of injuries. Remember that no single element alone does not justify a diagnosis of abuse.

* A history that is inconsistent with the injury, unexplained injury.
o With any trauma, veterinarians should attempt to obtain a detailed history and do not assume that animals are victims of motor vehicle accidents. This photograph shows the wounds inflicted on a cat that could have been caused by a motor vehicle accident. However, the cause of this injury was blunt trauma cat intentional.
* History of conflict (varies depending on who tells it).
* Behavior of the client or patient (eg., The owner seems very worried about injuries, the animal is extremely fearful).
* Fractures – skulls, limb fractures, multiple fractures.
o This radiograph shows fractured vertebrae and multiple fractures of the ribs.
* Multiple fractures in various stages of healing is a decisive sign of non-accidental injury Read more »

Support In Case Of Accidental Injury

The discovery of syringes discarded by drug addicts in public places or yards of schools occurs occasionally, particularly in areas frequented by IDUs. When children are injured with the needle, it always raises a lot of anxiety and emotions around them, especially since the beginning of the epidemic of HIV infection.

Today, we can make the following observation:

The frequency of accidents has not increased significantly over the last 15 years:
A particular effort was made to clean public areas.
B The needle exchange programs have borne fruit.
C. Education of children is effective.
D The number of injecting drug users is relatively stable.

Also note that there has never been a documented infection (and published) by HIV through an accidental injury outside the medical context. Contamination by hepatitis B and C is estimated ten times in similar circumstances. However, no cases have been described in the literature Read more »

Safety & Injuries

Safety and injury represents a public health problem that has the greatest impact on the lives of Canadians. It is the leading case of death in children and adolescents and hospitalizations in children, adolescents and seniors. And overall Canadian population, the injury is the major cause of disability of short and long term.
What is a wound?

An injury is physical damage that occurs when the body is called upon to provide doses of energy beyond its capacity or when deprived of a vital element, such as air, water or heat.

An injury may be intentional or accidental.

* The injury is intentionally self-inflicted (suicide, self harm) or imposed on others (family violence, violence against children, assault, murder).
* The accidental injury is simply not intentional – it is the result of motor vehicle crashes, falls, fires and poisoning.

The difference between the diseases and injuries is that they occur very suddenly. Someone is doing well and in a few seconds, it can be injured, disabled or fatally injured. Injuries are considered “accidents”, a term which is misleading because it suggests that nothing could be done. But in fact, injuries are preventable. Read more »