Citation

Pant PR, Towner EML, Pilkington P, Ellis M. Int. J. Inj. Control Safe. Promot. 2015; 22(1): 24-32.

Affiliation

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences , University of the West of England , Bristol , United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/17457300.2013.842594

PMID

24111572

Abstract

All the 11 members of the South-East Asia Region (SEAR) of the World Health Organization are categorised as low- and middle-income countries. This region has over a quarter of the world's total population but comprises about one-third of the world's unintentional injury-related deaths.

There is a paucity of good-quality mortality and morbidity data from most of these countries. This is the first systematic review of community-based surveys on child injuries that summarises evidence from child injury studies from the SEAR countries.

The included papers reported varying estimates of overall non-fatal unintentional injury rates across the countries, from 15/1000 children in Thailand to as high as 342/1000 children in India. The fatal injury rates were also found to be varying.

This review revealed a need for strengthening child injury research using standard methodologies across the region and for promoting the dissemination of the results.

Language: en