Injury prevention in Finland among people under 25 years 2009–2014

Korpilahti, Ulla; Kolehmainen, Laura; Lounamaa, Anne

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckv175.019

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“…Around 122 Finnish children and young people under the age of 25 die annually in accidental injuries and 13,500 persons are hospitalized [8]. The child and adolescent injury death rates in Finland have decreased during the last decades, nevertheless, the figures still remain twice as high as rates in the Netherlands, one of the safest countries in Europe [9].…”

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Green Cross: Application for analyzing School injuries

Somerkoski

2017

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Unintentional injuries are a major cause of untimely deaths among children and adolescents. Violence and injuries in the schools have raised the need to collect the injury data routinely and to find ways to analyze the potential risks of the near-miss cases. The aim of this study is to explore the injury data collection method piloted with the Green Cross software and to describe the characteristics of the school injuries (n=88). The qualitative data consisted of user-interviews and data reports.As the main result of this study, the Green Cross software provides a decent way to monitor the injuries in the school context in such a way that the accidents, incidents, injuries and near-miss cases become more visible. A novel finding was that many school injuries were unpredictable, connected to human factor issues, persons acting against norms and regulations or using structures or products in a way they are not supposed to be used.

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Green Cross: Application for analyzing School injuries

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Injury prevention in Finland among people under 25 years 2009–2014

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Green Cross: Application for analyzing School injuries

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