Accidents among high school pupils in Israel: a recurrent disease?

Gaps in Childhood Injury Research and Prevention: What Can Developmental Scientists Contribute?

“…Some studies have explored parents’ teaching of young children about safety rules (Garling & Garling, 1995; Morrongiello, Corbett, Lasenby, Johnston, & McCourt, 2006), but few have considered socialization of safety or risk attitudes and practices per se (Morrongiello & Lasenby‐Lessard, 2007), and none of these studies have used a longitudinal design to examine effects across developmental periods. Findings that individual members of families tend to have stable and similar rates of injury (Brook & Heim, 1997) and that risk for some types of injuries runs in families (Cobb, Maxwell, & Silverstein, 1992) certainly suggest that there are mechanisms promoting the intergenerational transmission of injury risk (Morrongiello & Lasenby‐Lessard, 2007). What remains to be determined, however, is the extent to which biological and socialization processes explain these effects.…”

Association Between Severity of Musculoskeletal Injury and Risk of Subsequent Injury in Children and Adolescents on the Basis of Parental Recall

“…4 In children, determinants of injury risk such as sex and age, 2,5 socioeconomic status, 6,7 and type of activity at the time of injury 8 are well known. Factors associated with risk of reinjury are somewhat similar to those associated with risk of injury and include sex, 1,2,9,10 age, 11,12 and socioeconomic status. 9,12,13 Although information about the influence of severity of an initial injury on subsequent injury in children is scant, results of studies among adults suggest that severity of the first injury may be associated with risk of subsequent injuries.…”

“…Factors associated with risk of reinjury are somewhat similar to those associated with risk of injury and include sex, 1,2,9,10 age, 11,12 and socioeconomic status. 9,12,13 Although information about the influence of severity of an initial injury on subsequent injury in children is scant, results of studies among adults suggest that severity of the first injury may be associated with risk of subsequent injuries. Results of one study 14 indicated that patients (mean age, 28.5 years) with severe injuries such as intracranial injury, fractures, and wounds to the head and neck, tend to have fewer subsequent injuries than do patients with more minor injuries such as muscle sprains.…”

School injury and gender differentials: a prospective cohort study

“…The comparison is difficult because the types of the injury considered were different. Our study focused on the school injuries that were treated at the school health service whereas most studies were focused on all injuries occurring during daily living activities; school injuries representing less than 36% of all injuries among students [8,31]. Linakis et al [40] found that, among injuries to school-aged children (aged 5-19), 12.1% occurred at school and the nature of the injuries differs by age group.…”

“…School injury is also frequent and its consequences are often severe for the students [2,4,7,8,10,31,32]. It should be noted that male and female adolescents differ both in their sports, physical activities, and leisure activities [33], and in their lifestyle and living conditions [1, 3-5, 7, 8, 16, 31-34].…”