TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1989//
TI  - Accidents/injuries of children in surgical admissions at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia: a psycho-social perspective
JO  - Central African journal of medicine
A1  - Peltzer, K.
SP  - 319
EP  - 322
VL  - 35
IS  - 2
N2  - 200 children (0-14 years) with an accident/injury at the surgical admission ward of the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka were investigated by interviewing children and parents/relatives on especially psycho-social and environmental factors of the accidents. As a result, four major potential causes could be identified: (1) Lack of supervision by parent or teacher; (2) Environmental hazards; (3) Attention seeking and (4) Cultural conflict or lower socio-economic class. On this basis various preventive measures are proposed, on the lines of improving on psycho-social stressors and controlling environmental agents, taking a developmental perspective of the child into account.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0008-9176
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -