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Home Accidents among Children: A Retrospective Study at a Tertiary Care Center in Oman

Oman Medical Journal, 2020
Objectives: We sought to identify the prevalence, commonest causes, and severity of home accident injuries and their effects on children who present to the emergency department (ED) of a university-tertiary hospital in Oman.
Alya Al Rumhi, Huda Al Awisi, Mahmood Al Buwaiqi, Salim Al Rabaani   +3 more
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Un problème de santé publique méconnu

Communication, 2013
The author raises the question why accidents in the home, which account annually for almost 11,500 deaths in France, never appear as a major public health issue. His study shows that the impact of home accidents on public health is underestimated in both
Matthieu Grossetête
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Determination of the Home Accident Frequency and Related Factors Among the People Older than 65 Years Old Living in Mersin City Center, Turkey

SAGE Open, 2019
This study determined the prevalence of home accidents among elderly people living in Mersin and the factors affecting their occurrence. The data of 609 elderly people were analyzed.
Gulcin Yapici, Ahmet Öner Kurt, Seva Öner, Tayyar Şaşmaz, Resul Buğdaycı   +4 more
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Injuries associated with housing conditions in Europe : a burden of disease study based on 2004 injury data [PDF]

, 2011
Background The authors recently undertook a study for the World Health Organization estimating the European burden of injuries that can be attributed to remediable structural hazards in the home.
Ormandy, David, Keall Michael D, Baker, Michael G., Michael D Keall, Ormandy David, Baker Michael G, Keall, Michael D., David Ormandy, Michael G Baker   +8 more
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Evaluation of the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of mothers of children admitted to the emergency department due to home accidents: a descriptive study from Northwest Syria

Medicine Science, 2023
Accidents that occur in the home or its surroundings are called home accidents. Our aim in this study was to identify the causes of admissions due to home accidents and to assess the awareness and attitudes of mothers.
Hakan Guner, Nazlı Celik, Mehmet El Idris   +2 more
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Associated factors for the occurrence of unintentional injuries in children from a low-income community in northeastern Brazil - doi 10.4025/actascihealthsci.v34i2.10313

Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences, 2012
Unintentional injuries reach high levels within the scope of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and have an impact on the quality of life of children and family members.
Luiza Jane Eyre de Souza Vieira, Augediva Maria Jucá Pordeus, Samira Valentim Gama Lira, Deborah Pedrosa Moreira, Aline de Souza Pereira, Isabella Lima Barbosa   +5 more
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Factors related to home accidents among the elderly in Thailand

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
Home accidents are common among elderly people. This cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to investigate the risk factors for accidents among elderly people in Thailand.
Chavinthorn Maiyapakdee, Teeraphun Kaewdok, Nontiya Homkham, Katiya Ivanovitch, Saowanee Norkaew   +4 more
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Vision-based toddler tracking at home

, 2007
This paper presents a vision-based toddler tracking system for detecting risk factors of a toddler's fall within the home environment. The risk factors have environmental and behavioral aspects and the research in this paper focuses on the behavioral ...
Wright, David, Na, Hana, Wright, D, Qin, SF, Sheng Feng Qin, Na, H, Hana Na, Qin, Sheng-feng, David Wright   +8 more
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National Survey of Home-Based Workers, 1981

, 1987
copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this survey was to provide nationally representative information on the personal and domestic characteristics of home-based workers, on the nature and organisation of home-based ...
Department of Employment, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Social Survey Division   +1 more
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The HOME FAST BRAZIL self-report version: translation and transcultural adaptation into Brazilian Portuguese

Advances in Rheumatology, 2020
Objective To translate and cross-culturally adapt the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool Self-report into Brazilian Portuguese and to correlate with the history of falls.
Jarbas Melo Filho, Natacha Verônica Bazanella, Audrin Said Vojciechowski, Elisiê Rossi Ribeiro Costa, Lynette Mackenzie, Anna Raquel Silveira Gomes   +5 more
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