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Some factors influencing home accidents in children

open access: yesJournal of the College of Community Physicians, 1996
Objective: To identify risk factors for home accidents that necessitates hospitalization. Methodology: Two hundred children admitted to Lady Ridgeway Hospital after a home accident were compared with a control group of 200 children, admitted to the same ...
G. A. T. K. Athauda, Lalini C. Rajapaksa
doaj   +1 more source

Child Access Prevention Laws: Keeping Guns Out of Our Children\u27s Hands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This Note explores the Child Access Prevention ( CAP ) law and laws which are generally intended to limit children\u27s access to guns at home. The author proposes a model CAP law that should be enacted in the United States.
Shaffer, Rachel
core   +1 more source

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

Controlling the Field: Memory, Labor, and Ethics in Oral Histories of Brazilian Human Genetics

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article examines how oral histories of twentieth‐century human genetics in Brazil reveal the politics of memory of fieldwork. Through a comparative analysis of interviews with prominent geneticist Francisco M. Salzano and technician Girley V. Simões, who worked with him for most of his career, this study explores the narrative strategies each ...
Rosanna Dent   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesOnline Brazilian Journal of Nursing, 2008
Domestic accidents can be considered a public health problem due to their high morbidity and mortality rates. The aims of this descriptive-exploratory study with a quantitative approach were to identify domestic accidents involving children in their ...
Regiane Paiva de Lima   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Characteristics of unintentional injuries reported to Shanghai hospitalized injury surveillance system, 2017‒2020

open access: yesShanghai yufang yixue, 2023
ObjectiveTo analyze the characteristics of hospitalized unintentional injuries and to provide evidence for formulating injury prevention and control strategies.MethodsDescriptive analysis was conducted on injury information of unintentional injury cases ...
XU Naiting   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accidental child driveway runovers: Exploring Waikato data and the efficacy of existing responses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
While the numbers of accidents are not high, there is little doubt that driveway runovers are an ongoing, often fatal and inevitably avoidable tragedy for children and their families. In many cases the driver is an immediate family member, or a neighbour
Campbell, Maxine M.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linear and Two‐Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of the Multifunctional Vibrational Probe, 3‐(4‐Azidophenyl) Propiolonitrile. Deperturbing a Fermi Triad by Isotopic Substitution

open access: yesChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 6, March 15, 2025.
Linear infrared spectroscopy combined with isotope labeling and density functional theory unravels the origin of a Fermi triad in a multifunctional vibrational chromophore. Ultrafast 2DIR‐spectroscopy reports directly on the dynamics and the intramolecular vibrational energy flow pathways in the isotopically deperturbed system. Abstract Infrared probes
Claudia Gräve   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fall at Home and its Related Factors among the Elderly in Babol City Iran

open access: yesMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Bābul, 2013
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: More than one third of elderly people experience fall annually and 20 to 30 percent of it caused moderate to severe injury. Fall related injuries are the leading cause of injury death and disabilities among older adults and its ...
SR Jafarian Amiri   +4 more
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