Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pönkä, Antti
• Salminen, Eira
• Pönkä, Tuija

Titel

Accidents among Children in Communal Day-care Centres in Helsinki

Ist Teil von

• Scandinavian journal of primary health care, 1989, Vol.7 (1), p.39-42

Ort / Verlag

United States: Informa UK Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The aim of this one-year prospective study of accidents in day-care centres was to determine the incidence and mechanisms of accidents and their severity. During 1985, 347 accidents were reported among 14511 children in communal day-care centres, an incidence of 24/1000 children/year. The corresponding figures were 53 and 38 in 1975 and 1980, respectively. The accidents, especially those due to violence and falling, tended to occur during the morning hours and on Mondays and Tuesdays. Half the cases were treated in hospitals and one-third in health centres. The most usual mechanisms, falling stumbling and violence, covered two-thirds of all accidents.