Child and adolescent injury prevention: A WHO plan of action 2006-2015 World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland 2006
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Acknowledgementy This publication was prepared following a consultation meeting on child and adolescent injury prevention,held on 30 March-1 April 2005 at WHO Headquarters in Geneva,Switzerland.Present and contributing were N.T.An(Ministry of Health,Viet Nam);C.Branche(CDC,USA);G.Brandmayr(Safekids Intemational,Germany);K. Browne(University of Birmingham,UK):V.Chandra-Mouli(WHO,Switzerland);A.Concha-Eastman(WHO-AMRO, USA):N.Du Toit(CAPFSA,South Africa):H.Fathey El-Sayed(Suez Canal University,Egypt);S.Hussain(WHO- EMRO,Egypt);A.Ghaffar(Global Forum for Health Research,Switzerland);M.Giersing(UNICEF,Bangladesh);F. Gore(WHO,Switzerland);Z.Guang(CDC.China);L.Hesemans(Ministry of Health,Welfare and Sport, Netherlands);K.Hoffmann(USAID,USA);A.A.Hyder(International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention,USA);O.Kobusingye(WHO-AFRO,Democratic Republic of Congo);E.Krug (WHO,Switzerland);L. Laflamme(Karolinska Institutet,Sweden);H.Linnan(UNICEF,Thailand);D.Ma Fat(WHO,Switzerland):C.McCourt (Health Canada,Canada);K.McMahon(Department for Transport,United Kingdom);C.Mulholland(WHO Switzerland):P.Orpinas(University of Georgia,USA);K.Oyegbite(UNICEF,USA):J.Ozanne-Smith(Monash University Accident Research Centre,Australia);M.Peden(WHO,Switzerland);D.Peterson(The Alliance for Safe Children,Thailand):;J.Pronczuk(WHO,Switzerland);A.K.M.Rahman(Institute of Child and Mother Health, Bangladesh);I.Scott(WHO,Switzerland);D.Sethi (WHO-EURO,Italy);K.Shibuya (WHO,Switzerland);B. Strukcinskiene(Klapeda College of Social Sciences,Lithuania):E.Towner(Centre of Child and Adolescent Health United Kingdom);J.Vincenten(European Child Safety Alliance,The Netherlands);C.Voumard(UNICEF,China). The publication was finalised by: 1.Scott Technical Officer,Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention,WHO. Switzerland M.Peden Coordinator,Unintentional Injuries Prevention,Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention,WHO,Switzerland E.Krug Director,Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention,WHO,Switzerland L.Hesemans Senior Policy Officer,Nutrition.Health Protection and Prevention Department Ministry of Health,Welfare and Sport.The Netherlands C.Branche Director,Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention,National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.USA H.Fathey El-Sayed Pediatrician,Suez Canal University,Egypt AA.Hyder Chair,International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention,Johns Hopkins University,USA O.Kobusingye Regional Advisor,Disability/Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation,WHO Regional Office for Africa,Democratic Republic of Congo H.Linnan Regional Consultant on Child Injury Prevention,UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office,Thailand P.Orpinas Department of Health Promotion and Behavior,University of Georgia,USA K.Oyegbite Senior Programme Officer,Planning and Coordination Health Section,UNICEF, USA J.Ozanne-Smith Professor,Monash University Accident Research Centre,Australia E.Towner Professor,Centre for Child and Adolescent Health,University of the West of England,United Kingdom WHO thanks Ann Morgan for editorial assistance,Pascale Lanvers-Casasola for administrative support,and Aleen Squires for design of the cover and graphics. The World Health Organization wishes to thank the Netherlands Ministry of Health,Welfare and Sport for their financial contribution which made the publication of this document possible. This document can be downloaded from: http://www.who.int/violence injury prevention/publications/other injury/en/index.html
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Foreword Injury and disability mar millions of young lives each year.Annually more than 875 000 children and adolescents under the age of 18 years die and tens of millions more require hospital treatment following an injury.For survivors the temporary or often times permanent impairment injuries cause and the resulting need for care and rehabilitation have far-reaching impacts on a child or young person's prospects for health,education and social inclusion as well as their parents'livelihood. Apart from the loss of these young lives with all their potential,the effect of injuries on children and adolescents is not limited to the injuries they alone may suffer-death,injury or disability to a sibling, parent or other family member can also alter their lives forever. The unequal burden of injury reinforces a need to address the problem.The burden falls most heavily on children and young people in poorer countries and on those from poorer families in all societies.More than 95%of injury deaths among children and adolescents occur in low-and middle-income countries. However,even in high-income countries,injuries are still a major cause of death for children and adolescents,accounting for about 40%of the deaths among those aged between 1 and 18 years The large and growing toll of child injury death,the significance of serious injury,and the frequent long lasting effects of injury on children and adolescents have resulted in the World Health Organization stepping up its injury prevention efforts.Fortunately,the news is good:there are ways to prevent child and adolescent injuries.The experience of many high-income countries is that a public health approach- rigorous scientific analysis of the problem,research on its causes,implementation of prevention strategies, and the broad replication of measures which have proven to be effective-has lead to substantial reductions.These include interventions on seat-belts,child restraints,helmets,flame resistant clothing and fencing around areas of water,and,to prevent violence-related injuries,they include home visitation programmes,family counselling,substance abuse programs and separate locked storage of firearms and ammunition. This document Child and adolescent injury prevention:a WHO plan of action presents a framework for the World Health Organization's approach to child and adolescent injury prevention,to guide its efforts at country,regional and global levels to reduce fatal and non-fatal injuries among children and young people. The plan results from an extensive process of consultation with organizations and individuals concerned with child health,and with child injury prevention in particular.It focuses on the main areas where WHO has added value in relation to injury prevention for children and adolescents,including surveillance, research,prevention,capacity development and advocacy. The World Health Organization could not take on this task alone,and will work in partnership across sectors to implement this plan.The work will involve a wide range of partners including:child and adolescent injury prevention organizations;WHO collaborating centres for injury and violence prevention; nongovernmental organizations;groups concerned with disability and rehabilitation;organisations representing persons affected by injury and violence and govemment representatives. I invite you to join us in our efforts to prevent these tragic and avoidable deaths and injuries of children and young people around the world. Dr Etienne Krug Director,Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention World Health Organization
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Table ofContents Acknowledgements Foreword Part I.How children are injured 1 1. Introduction 1 Global concern for the health and welfare of children and adolescents 2 Child and adolescent injury prevention in context 2. What are the prevalence,risk factors and impacts of injury? 4 Definitions and classifications 4 Risk factors 7 Economic and social costs 8 Are child and adolescent injuries preventable? 9 4. What are the challenges? 11 Data limitations 11 Research 12 Prevention 12 Capacity development 12 Advocacy 13 WHO's role 13 6. The role of other agencies 14 Part Il The WHO plan of action 15 Data and measurement 16 2 Research 17 Prevention 18 4. Services for children affected by injury and violence 19 6 Capacity development 20 6 Advocacy 7. Conclusion 2 References 23 Annex 1. WHO child and adolescent injury prevention plan at a glance 25
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Part I How childrenare injured 1.Introduction Injury is a major killer of children and adolescents throughout the world,responsible for over 875 000 deaths in children and young people under the age of 18 years each year(1).Tens of millions more require hospital care for non-fatal injuries,many of whom are left with some form of disability,which all too often has lifelong consequences. The burden of injury is unequal in that it falls most heavily on the poor,that is to say,the burden is greatest Child and adolescent injury deaths on children and adolescents in the poorer countries of Injury deathsa Injury death rate the world and within any given country,on those from (of all (per100000 low-income families.Overall,more than 95%of all injury deaths) population) deaths in children and adolescents occur in low-and High-income countries 41 7.7 middle-income countries.Although the child injury death Low-and middle-income rate is much lower among children and adolescents countries 13 37.2 from high-income countries,injuries are still a major cause of death,accounting for about 40%of all child aData refer to persons aged 1-14 years. Source:WHO Global Burden of Disease project,2002,version 5 and adolescent deaths in these countries (see facing table). Disconcertingly,as data collection systems improve,it has become increasingly LEADING CAUSES OF obvious that both the absolute numbers and rates of child and adolescent injury and OLESCEUS AED ONE death are rising in the low-and middle-income countries,in tandem with growing levels TO 15 YEARS,2002,by rank of urbanization and motorization.The combination of increasing incidence and recent successes in reducing other causes of death,particularly infectious disease,means Lower respiratory infections that the significance of injury is growing such that it now figures prominently among the Childhood cluster diseases list of leading causes of death in children and adolescents(see chart). Diarrhoeal diseases These trends can,however,be reversed.The experience of many high-income HIV/AIDS countries shows that through careful analysis and appropriate action,child and Malaria adolescent injuries can be prevented.Among the member countries of the Organisation Road traffic可juries for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD),for example,the number of Drowning injury deaths among children under the age of 15 years fell by half between 1970 and Perinatal conditions 1995(2).This reduction has been attributed to a combination of research,data system development,the introduction of specific prevention measures,changes in the local Protein-energy malnutrition environment,legislation,public education,improvements in the level and quality of Congential anomalies 10 emergency assistance and trauma care,and project evaluation.Regrettably,until Fire-related burns 11 relatively recently,little or no attention has been paid to the issue of injuries in the low- Tuberculosis and middle-income countries.The lack of awareness and understanding of the problem Meningitis and given the particular circumstances that these countries face-has meant that appropriate interventions for injury prevention have not been implemented to the same Leukaemia extent as they have been in the high-income countries. Poisonings 1
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