Waldman H B
Department of General Dentistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794-8706, USA.
ASDC J Dent Child. 1996 Jan-Feb;63(1):54-9.
Details are provided from a series of government and private agency reports on the accidents and related deaths of children and the effectiveness of efforts being made to reduce the incidence of these tragedies. In 1992 there were 83,000 accidental deaths and more than 17 million disabling injuries in the United States costing $399 billion. The death rate was down 10 percent from 1991, and also the lowest recorded in recent years. Included in these statistics are 19 million injured children and 11 thousand dead children. The leading cause of death of children less than ten years of age was an unintentional injury. The author presents details on the accidents and related deaths, as well as the effectiveness of efforts to reduce the incidence of these accidents. From the youngest ages to the teen years, a greater number of males than females are injured and die from accident-related causes. The number of accidental deaths of children, ages five to nine years, almost equalled the number of deaths from natural causes. For children ten to fourteen years old, the number of accidental deaths was one third greater than the number from natural causes. Statistics regarding death and injury from motor vehicles, firearms, consumer products, and poison are presented.
一系列政府和私人机构的报告提供了有关儿童事故及相关死亡情况的详细信息，以及为降低这些悲剧发生率所做努力的成效。1992年，美国有8.3万起意外死亡事件，超过1700万人受重伤致残，损失达3990亿美元。死亡率比1991年下降了10%，也是近年来有记录以来的最低水平。这些统计数据包括1900万受伤儿童和1.1万名死亡儿童。10岁以下儿童的主要死因是意外伤害。作者介绍了事故及相关死亡的详细情况，以及为降低这些事故发生率所做努力的成效。从幼儿期到青少年期，因事故相关原因受伤和死亡的男性人数多于女性。5至9岁儿童的意外死亡人数几乎与自然原因导致的死亡人数相当。对于10至14岁的儿童，意外死亡人数比自然原因导致的死亡人数多三分之一。文中还列出了机动车、枪支、消费品和中毒导致的伤亡统计数据。
