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Burns in Tanzania: Morbidity and Mortality, Causes and Risk Factors: A Review. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Burn injuries in low and middle income countries still remain a significant health problem, even though numbers of burn injuries in high income countries have decreased showing that such events are not "accidents" but are usually preventable.
Ismail, Hawa   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown: what has changed in common home accidents such as foreign bodies and corrosive injuries? [PDF]

open access: yesPediatr Surg Int, 2022
Balcı Ö   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

AN ASSESSMENT OF HOME ACCIDENTS AMONG UNDER FIVE CHILDREN IN MADAGALI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ADAMWA STATE [PDF]

open access: yesKanem Journal of Medical Sciences, 2012
Domestic accidents occur at all ages but the very young and very old are especially susceptible, (children being particularly more susceptible). Young children are naturally curious and explore, and this makes them vulnerable to risks and accidents ...
AMODU MO, YAHYA SJ, BOLORI MT, BELLO M
doaj  

A methodology to investigate and visualise the geographical provenance of road traffic casualties in deprived areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper demonstrates a methodology based on spatial overlay techniques, casualty data and national deprivation scores, to quantify and visualise the geographical provenance of road traffic casualties in deprived areas.
Rana, S, Ward, H
core  

Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Major causes of domestic accidents in children: a descriptive-exploratory study

open access: yesOnline Brazilian Journal of Nursing, 2008
<span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt">Domestic accidents can be considered a public health problem due to their high morbidity and mortality rates.
Regiane Paiva de Lima   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

As injúrias não intencionais no ambiente domiciliar: a casa segura Unintentional injuries in the home environment: home safety

open access: yesJornal de Pediatria, 2005
OBJETIVO: Revisar as características das injúrias físicas não intencionais e seu impacto sobre a criança e o adolescente. FONTES DOS DADOS: Foram selecionados artigos publicados principalmente entre 2000 e 2005 nas bases de dados MEDLINE, EBSCO, Proquest,
Carlos E. N Paes, Vera L. V Gaspar
doaj   +1 more source

First Aid in Common Injuries and Accidents [PDF]

open access: yes, 1931
PDF pages ...
Przyluska, Wanda
core  

I Wanted to Be Able to Stand on My Own Two Feet First—Younger Parents Exiting Homelessness and Care and Their Aspirations

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative study examines the aspirations, motivations and support needs of 15 young parents in South Australia with experiences of out‐of‐home care (OOHC) or homelessness. Most participants aimed to delay parenting to achieve financial stability, education and personal development, but faced unplanned pregnancies due to inadequate ...
Tim Moore, Stewart McDougall
wiley   +1 more source

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